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The Education of David Hogg
A lot has changed since I first met David Hogg in 2018. He has a beard now, and a girlfriend. He's about to be a senior at Harvard, studying the history of conservative political movements. His face has lost what little roundness it had. There's a new President, and a new party in control of Congress.
Addded Jun 15, 2022
Media missing the forest for the legislative trees?
Jonathan Cohn tells Brian Stelter that some news outlets "overreacted" to the news out of Congress this week, saying to him it looked like "a pretty normal process of negotiation." Charlotte Alter says "all of these hand-wringing headlines kind of undersell the fact this is just how the sausage gets made."
Addded Oct 3, 2021
'Tuckerism:' Charlotte Alter explains Carlson's cynical posture
Charlotte Alter, who recently interviewed Tucker Carlson, says "Tuckerism" is "more of a posture or an attitude than a real ideology." It's "walking right up to a conspiracy theory, putting your toe in the water, then kind of jumping back when you're challenged and wrapping yourself in the mantle of free speech."
Addded Jul 18, 2021
Why Tucker Carlson is so appealing to conservatives: Reporter shares what she learned about Fox Host
Time Magazine's Charlotte Alter got a rare on-the-record interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson and shares what she learned about why he is so appealing to the conservative base.
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Talking With Tucker Carlson, the Most Powerful Conservative in America
“The truer something is, the more penalized you are for articulating it.”
Addded Jul 15, 2021
Why political reporters pay attention to voters' media diets
Astead Herndon says that asking about the news diets of voters provides "a direct, causational understanding of why they feel the way that they do." Charlotte Alter also joins the conversation about the impact of conspiracy theories.
Addded Dec 14, 2020
Why Time picked Biden and Harris for Person of the Year
Charlotte Alter, who wrote the cover story for Time magazine's Person of the Year feature, says "Biden and Harris won overwhelmingly," and "the story is not just about how they beat Trump this year, it's also about the future.
Addded Dec 14, 2020
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year
Together, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket. And America bought what they were selling.
Addded Dec 12, 2020
Trump's disrespectful treatment of women moderators
Charlotte Alter says Trump "saves his most personal attacks for women and particularly for women journalists." She says his personal jabs at Savannah Guthrie and Kristen Welker are part of a larger narrative, of "running against the entire idea of media scrutiny."
Addded Oct 19, 2020
Will the debate commission add more 'structure' or not?
Brian Stelter discusses the debate commission's "embarrassing setbacks" with Noah Shachtman and Charlotte Alter. The debate producers need to put "a little bit of bite behind their rules and do some enforcement because they are dealing with a candidate who has no respect for these kinds of institutional guardrails," Alter says.
Addded Oct 19, 2020
Reporter finds voters gripped by 'unlogic'
"Time" magazine national correspondent Charlotte Alter says she found "a nation plagued by misinformation" during a recent road trip. She says a concerning number of voters "didn't really believe or didn't care what was being reported in the news." She describes "unlogic," a mindset rooted in "opposition to authority," fact-checking and verification.
Addded Oct 19, 2020
Greta Thunberg Is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year
The climate activist has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change.
Addded Dec 11, 2019
Inside Elizabeth Warren's Selfie Strategy
Candidates snapping selfies with voters is not new. But Warren has elevated an old shtick into the centerpiece of her digital strategy.
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'One Woman, and Millions of People to Back Her Up.' How Elizabeth Warren Made Fighting Corruption A Feminist Rallying Cry
If winning the Democratic nomination requires wooing the party’s progressive wing and harnessing the power of activist women, then Senator Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that.
Addded Sep 17, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's relationship with the media
One minute, she's criticizing Fox News and challenging fact-checks. The next minute, she's defending journalism. Charlotte Alter says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is "walking this line by pointing out some of the biases that we do have in the media, and also supporting the media as an institution."
Addded Jan 28, 2019
Media primary: Dems on Colbert, Maddow and Instagram
Charlotte Alter, Laura Bassett, and Jess McIntosh discuss the differing roll out strategies of Democratic hopefuls. Candidates are using platforms like Twitter and shows like "The View" to pitch themselves.
Addded Jan 28, 2019
Split-screen weekend: protests and shutdown
What's the bigger story? Political analyst Jeff Greenfield, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley and Time correspondent Charlotte Alter discuss the government shutdown and wave of women's marches that marked Trump's first anniversary in office.
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The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet
From J.K. Rowling to Joanne the Scammer.
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How Mobile Internet Actually Works
Want to know more about how your favorite app or website makes it to the cell phone in your pocket?
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This is How a Police Prostitution Sting Works
Since 2009, Cook County, IL has been cracking down on sex buyers and adding social services for prostituted women. Now, they're coaching law enforcement from around the country to take this new approach: target sex buyers as a way to reduce demand for prostitution.
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The Prostitution Paradox: How One County is Targeting Men Who Buy Sex
It's rare to see a grown man cry. But in a cigarette-scented hotel room near a Chicago airport, more than a dozen men come and go with wet cheeks and quivering lips. No one had died, no national tragedy had occurred- they had just been caught trying to buy sex.
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The Spectrum of Choice: Sex Industry Veterans Speak Out
Not everyone who works in the sex trade is a victim. Yet a significant portion of women who work in the sex trade are coerced in some way. And sex trafficking (commonly defined as recruitment, coercion or transport for the purposes of sexual exploitation), is rampant.
Addded Aug 18, 2015
Target CEO Resigns Amid Fallout From Data Breach
Gregg Steinhafel held himself "personally accountable" for the massive 2013 data breach that exposed millions of credit cards, but Target's board credited him with steering the retail giant through the crisis and said he would remain in an advisory role during the leadership transition Target president and CEO Gregg Steinhafel will step down, the retail giant said Monday, five months a massive data breach over the holidays compromised the credit card information of more than 40 million customers.
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