So I’ve put the framework of my thesis on my website. Its here: http://djmurph74.wixsite.com/mysite One obstacle I havent overcome yet – Wix says that  can’t mess with the code. I can copy the image of the creative commons license and put it on my site, but I lknow that’s not the same thing as actually embedding […]

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I have reached the editing stage for the bulk of my thesis and I am coming to realize that it may be the most difficult phase.  I have to streamline my thoughts and put them in a coherent order which has led me to make marks (*mostly undecipherable) all over my work.  The biggest difficulty […]

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(in expanding on the 4th estate) Historically, the press is one of the pillars of American democracy. Known as the “Fourth Estate”, the notion of journalism as the fourth leg of the table stems from Britain in the late 1700’s, but it fit nicely with the nascent American experiment as well, situating a free press […]

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I sent these out this week – Kristen, at least, has acknowledged that she got them and hopefully will respond. It was just too hard to do an interview on the phone or in-person. I will not name them in the paper, I will publish their answers anonymously, only identifying them as correspondents at a major […]

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