Stories by Marty Kaplan

Martin Kaplan, a former White House speech writer, is a research professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. subscribe to Marty Kaplan's feed

Bill Moyers: Weapons of Mass Distraction—Why the Media Most Americans Consume Is Harmful to the Public Health

Posted on: Jul 16, 2013, Source: Moyers & Company

Marty Kaplan unravels distractions that prevent national outcry over unemployment, hunger, crumbling infrastructure and out of whack systems.

Are Americans as Stupid as the Media Think They Are? (Maybe)

Posted on: Mar 29, 2010, Source: AlterNet

There are "poll numbers that pretty convincingly correlate believing idiotic things with having less education, and not believing idiotic things with having more education."

Giving It Away for Free

Posted on: Mar 17, 2009, Source: Brave New Films

How Brave New Films fits into the sharing economy of David Bollier's "Viral Spiral."

An Inconvenient Resurrection

Posted on: Jan 8, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Hillary fan or not, it's fun to see pundits eat the words of their premature obituaries.

Will CNN Censor Questions About Homophobia for the GOP YouTube Debate?

Posted on: Nov 26, 2007, Source: Huffington Post

Marty Kaplan: The notion that the CNN/YouTube debate represents a grass-roots triumph of the Internet age is laughable.