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Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has generated controversy.   Here are some takes from the interview from three very different perspectives: Jon Stewart, Glen Greenwald and Ian Bremmer:

First, Jon Stewart, who is disgusted by Carlson:

Second, Greenwald, who is pro-Russian and highlights Putin’s responses to supposed Western “provocations” …

And next, Ian Bremmer, a journalist and scholar of Russian history who is not pro-Russian …

Cool? Yes. Accurate? Not entirely.

The Netflix series “Stranger Things” does not do justice to the way women were moving up in journalism in the 1980s, according to Kelly McBride writing for the Poynter Institute.

She writes:

“Yes, there was plenty of sexism in both newsrooms and the broader world. (And racism, too, which isn’t acknowledged much in the series.) But The Hawkins Post looks more like 1955 than 1985, when women were making enormous strides in journalism.”

John Cleese talks about disappointment with the UK government, the Brexit vote, and the conservative domination of UK media.

Report for America, a partnership between the GroundTruth Project and Google News Lab with support from the Lenfest Institute, the Knight Foundation, and a number of other journalism organizations, has the ambitious goal of putting 1,000 journalists into underserved newsrooms across America over the next five years, according to an article in Nieman Reports.

One thing is certain in the wake of the 2016 presidential election,  says  Margaret Sullivan’s  Nov 11 2016 column in the Washington Post 

“Journalists are going to have to be better — stronger, more courageous, stiffer-spined — than they’ve ever been.

“Donald Trump made hatred of the media the centerpiece of his campaign. Journalists were just cogs in a corporate machine, part of the rigged system. If many Americans distrusted us in the past, they came to actively hate us.

“…  We have to be willing to fight back,” she said. Continue reading →