Each year, fewer and fewer Americans consume broadcast and cable media, while more and more consume digital social media. In 2016, paid political advertising on internet social media platforms like Facebook dwarfed their broadcast counterparts to the tune of $1.4 billion in 2016. But with the Supreme Court lifting spending caps on so-called issue ads […]
Examining the “Russian Threat”
How influential was Russian meddling in the 2016 election? What kind of threat does Russia under Putin pose amidst all the talk of a “new Cold War”? In a two-part show, host Allen Ruff spoke with University of Massachusetts-Boston political analyst Thomas Ferguson, co-author of a recent in-depth study examining the factors which gave Trump […]
