On The Media

Never The Same Mainstream Twice

November 24, 2006

Aficionados of partisan media -- left and right -- are all familiar with the initials MSM. For the past few years, both sides have been using the three letters to stand in for everything that is lame about their establishment counterparts. Last year, Brooke spoke with NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen about the new meanings and resonances of the phrase "mainstream media."

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