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What is the News21 Project?
By John Andrews

The Project on News in the 21st Century, conducted by Colorado Christian University through its Centennial Institute think tank, was launched in July 2011 as a joint initiative in classroom instruction and civic engagement to address the growing concerns of … Continue reading →


A Force No One Can Escape
By Jay Ambrose

Back in 1835, in his great book Democracy in America, the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville announced something he found in this country that “actually surpasses belief” – the extraordinary number of periodical and occasional publications. Fast forward to the 21st … Continue reading →


Media Losing Their Way
By Stephen Keating

“Be seekers of truth” is one of the strategic objectives of Colorado Christian University. It also is – or should be – the purpose of journalism. Yet, today we see the news media losing their way, fractured by technology and … Continue reading →


For an Informed and Participative Citizenry
By John Dendahl

Natural human interest in the salacious apparently spans at least two millennia. Virgil’s Aeneid (25 B.C.) remarks upon “rumor, than whom no other evil thing is faster.”[1] Already in the 1860s, C.H. Spurgeon could cite as an “old proverb” the … Continue reading →

News21 Blog

Rubin: Media blew it on Ryan
By Admin

In at least 10 ways, says Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, the MSM story line about Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s running mate has been flawed.  Here’s her list. The punditocracy has gotten nearly everything wrong in this election cycle. … Continue reading →


 The Denver Post gets radical on Paul Ryan
By Joshua Sharf

The Denver Post’s editorial on Mitt Romney’s selection of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., as his running mate calls Ryan “a radical choice” and his budget proposal “a one-sided, ideological proposal.” Then again, four years (and $5 trillion in debt) … Continue reading →


 Does alcohol kill? DP’s not telling
By John Andrews

The death of Charley Martin, a fixture on Denver morning radio from the ’70s to the ’90s, was deemed important enough by Denver Post editors to put on Page 1 today.  But in writing the story, Joanne Ostrow didn’t see … Continue reading →


 Media habitually & wrongly blame the right
By Admin

On Friday morning, July 21 Brian Ross of ABC News speculated on live TV that James Holmes, the previous night’s accused killer in Aurora, Colo., was a member of the Tea Party. A few hours later, Ross posted a short … Continue reading →


 Pleasant surprise on birth control
By Tammy Ammerman

 Since big media get our brickbats for reporting irresponsibly, when coverage is notably responsible they deserve a bouquet. What a pleasant surprise to see the Sunday Denver Post on May 20, a week after Mother’s Day, veer off its customary secularist-feminist … Continue reading →