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• What happened in Iowa will not stay in Iowa

  By Jandoli Institute on February 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  By Alex Marwaha Originally, I was completely for the Iowa caucus representing the country’s vote. People that I’ve discussed this issue with brought up great and interesting points about some of the surrounding facts I had never thought about, such… Read More ›

• America First: Make America Nostalgic Again

  By Jandoli Institute on February 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  By Philip G. Payne The 2020 presidential election marks not just President Trump’s re-election bid, but also the 100th anniversary of another presidential election marked by deep divides in America.  A century after Warren G. Harding defeated James Cox we… Read More ›

• Like Writing History with Lightning: The Politics of Nostalgia and New Media

  By Jandoli Institute on February 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  By Philip G. Payne If we think of Warren G. Harding today, even looking back on the 1920 election, he seems old-timey in his boater-hat campaigning from his Front Porch in Marion, Ohio –  more George Babbitt than Jay Gatsby…. Read More ›

• Lee interviews former NJ governor

  By Jandoli Institute on February 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Jandoli Institute Executive Director Richard Lee took part in a Q&A session with former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey at Rider University in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, Monday. McGreevey, the nation’s first openly gay governor, was the featured speaker… Read More ›

• Kobe Bryant and Buddy Holly have more in common than the way they died

  By Jandoli Institute on February 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  By Richard Lee In a busy media week that included the Super Bowl, the Iowa Caucuses and the State of the Union, the anniversary of one of the music world’s most tragic events did not receive the attention it usually… Read More ›

• The simple math behind Trump’s Super Bowl ad

  By Jandoli Institute on February 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  By Richard Lee I’ll admit it: Donald Trump’s first quarter Super Bowl ad took me by surprise. No talk of fake news, hoaxes or witch-hunts. No shots of cheering Trump supporters at a MAGA rally. Instead the ad featured Alice… Read More ›

• Authorship matters; sources matter

  By Jandoli Institute on February 3, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  By Chris Mackowski Last week, frothing with impeachment fever, a relative forwarded to me a Facebook meme purportedly authored by Clint Eastwood. “People message me why I stick my neck out for Trump,” the meme said. “Why do I tarnish… Read More ›

• Q&A with Ceraulo and Wilt on reporting from Miami about the Super Bowl

  By Jandoli Institute on February 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Six St. Bonaventure students spent the past week in Miami, working side-by-side with media professionals covering the buildup to today’s Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. Joe Ceraulo and Stephen Wilt, who initiated… Read More ›

• Jim Lehrer’s Certain Rest

  By Jandoli Institute on January 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  By Chris Mackowski When my twelve-year-old daughter asked Jim Lehrer to sign a copy of his novel No Certain Rest for her, he cast a quick glance at me, then offered her kind smile. “Did you really read it?” he… Read More ›

• New book on unmaking of first A-bomb movie coming in July

  By Jandoli Institute on January 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  By Greg Mitchell Just a short post here to announce my new book coming this July, The Beginning or the End:  How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. If that title’s not enough, there’s a brief write-up… Read More ›