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Richard Nixon's model campaign
11 May 2012
New York Times Online
For Mitt Romney to win in November, he has to find a way to woo, but not wed, conservative media. Postdoctoral fellow Nicole Hemmer says there’s no better example to follow than Richard Nixon in 1968. Read more
Can Obama afford to be the Entertainer-In-Chief?
4 May 2012
ABC TV Planet America
The right wing media in the US came out strongly against appearances made by President Obama this week on Jimmy Fallon and at the White House Correspondents Dinner, but were these criticisms fair? Postdoctoral Fellow Nicole Hemmer talks to the ABC's John Barron about the news landscape in the US and how both Obama and Mitt Romney will navigate the airwaves in this campaign. Watch Online
Obama is a Muslim Black Panther!
23 April 2012
The Conversation
The launch of former Arkansas governor and previous presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's talk radio show shouldn't be a surprise, says post-doctoral fellow Nicole Hemmer. The marriage between conservative media and Republican party politics has been a process of steady intertwining over the past half century.
Don't let Twitter fool you, Derryn
23 April 2012
The Canberra Times
In this excerpt from an essay appearing in the May issue of the US Studies Centre's journal, American Review, editor of the Lowy Institute's The Interpreter blog Sam Roggeveen argues that the media's fascination with Twitter misses the true potential of online media. Blogs are where the real revolution in new media is occuring, and Australian political debate is weaker for not having a robust American-style blogosphere. Read article
The boys who cried Fox
20 April 2012
The New York Times Campaign Stops
Conservatives have long accused the mainstream media of liberal bias, says post-doctoral fellow Nicole Hemmer, but Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have recently claimed reliably right wing outlets like Fox News and the National Review are in the tank for Mitt Romney. What happened to turn the right against its own mouthpieces? Read article
Reporting the Republican primaries
9 March 2012
ABC Radio National Media Report
With the 24 hour media cycle, large partisan news organisations and highly staged managed public appearances by Republican candidates vying for the nomination to take on Obama in November, are we actually getting good journalism on the subject? Chair in US Media & National Correspondent for The Atlantic magazine James Fallows discusses how a combination of money and media are shaping the 2012 US Presidential elections. Listen Online
Still some of the old in new media age
14 October 2011
In this interview Professor Shanto Iyengar discusses how political candidates in America are utilising new media in their efforts to be elected to public office. Professor Iyengar notes that while vehicles such as social media do provide direct interactions between candidates and voters, the role of print and broadcast journalists remain a significant consideration in political campaigns. Also discussed is the under-provision of international news in America and how this affects politics in the US. Watch Online
