Despite the central role of punditry in our contemporary media environment, research has been slow to examine punditry on cable news. Deregulation, the advent of cable television, and the rise of a twenty-four hour news cycle have dramatically transformed the structure and content of news, paving t[...]
In the morning on Boxing Day, December 26 2004, an earthquake west of Sumatra caused two enormous sea waves, or tsunamis, which struck the coastlines of the Indian Ocean. In total, more than 286 000 people were killed in one of the worst natural disasters in history. The tsunami was hitting the poor[...]