Media Freedom News and Blog Posts

The accelerated pace of content output, along with the decreasing number of journalists, has resulted in what Dean Starkman called the “Hamster Wheel,” where quantity replaces quality, and many stories are relatively vacuous.

The accelerated pace of content output, along with the decreasing number of journalists, has resulted in what Dean Starkman called the “Hamster Wheel,” where quantity replaces quality, and many stories are relatively vacuous.

One of the biggest international stories in Western media over the past two months has been the proposed “Foreign Agents” law in the Republic of Georgia. Differently framed coverage of the controversial law from American and international news outlets provides an important lesson in global media bias.

Protestors recently took to the streets in Tbilisi, Georgia to express their discontent with a new law that they believed would impede their chances at a European future.