TROY journalism professor Steve Stewart says the best way to counter information or opinions you disagree with is to express your own point of view.
A nationwide furor over professional athletes’ protesting during the national anthem coincided with a couple of events on Troy University’s main campus: the library’s Banned Books Week and a futile effort by some individuals to suppress a story in the student newspaper by stealing papers.
President Donald Trump ignited the anthem controversy during a political…
Morris Dees, co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will speak during the annual journalism symposium.
Morris Dees, co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will speak March 22 during Troy University’s annual journalism symposium.
The public is invited to the event at 10 a.m. in the ballroom of the Trojan Center on the university’s Troy Campus. Admission is free.
Dees’ topic will be “With Justice for…
How can you tell whether a particular journalist, newspaper, website or broadcaster is giving you information that you can rely on?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts,” said Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a professor, politician and statesman who advised four presidents of both parties.
His statement reminds us that we should seek the facts and base our opinions on them. But that’s not as simple as it seems today, when…
TROY journalism professor Steve Stewart explores the politics behind the U.S. electoral system.
“Elections are rigged,” one of my students said — echoing a word used by Donald Trump, whom she probably would not vote for.
My instinct was to disagree, but on reflection I came to the conclusion that “rigged” is too strong a word, but she has a point.
In several ways, our system makes some…
