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"Media and Power in the Age of Putin and Trump"
University of Chicago
October 21, 2017
William Nickell, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
For the past year we've been transfixed by the news—but also by the way the news has been reported. Longstanding practices have been questioned or abandoned as our media have grappled with how to cover a changing political landscape. A similar situation unfolded in late and post-Soviet Russia, where regime change was accompanied, but also anticipated, by radical questioning of the validity of the news.
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"Media and Power in the Age of Putin and Trump"
University of Chicago
October 21, 2017
William Nickell, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
For the past year we've been transfixed by the news—but also by the way the news has been reported. Longstanding practices have been questioned or abandoned as our media have grappled with how to cover a changing political landscape. A similar situation unfolded in late and post-Soviet Russia, where regime change was accompanied, but also anticipated, by radical questioning of the validity of the news.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to humanities@uchicago.edu.
