The Lint Trap of History
Michael J. SocolowThis Substack publishes archival ephemera I've found interesting in my career as a media historian.
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Everyone (Old) Loves the Obits
I’m not sure when it happens. I’d guess it occurs somewhere in the mid-40s. That’s when the typical news junkie starts to really become interested in obituaries. Like a magnet, these capsule biographies pull the reader past the comics, spor...
CBS News Radio, 1927 - 2026: A Selective Remembrance
I don’t enjoy composing eulogies, but today I’m going to memorialize CBS News Radio. In case you missed it, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski announced last Friday that CBS News Radio will cease to exi...
"47 Years": How the Iran Crisis of 1979 - 1981 Forever Changed TV News
The meeting grew tense. On one side of the table, in a conference room on the 36th floor of Black Rock, the CBS headquarters building in midtown Manhattan, sat CBS Chairman William S. Paley and CBS President and CEO John Backe. Across from ...
Jeffrey Epstein Wasn't Just Evil... He Was Also Really Stupid
Today’s post was inspired by two things. The first was my viewing of DJVlad’s upload of the (in)famous Steve Bannon interview of Jeffrey Epstein. I couldn’t watch the whole thing - it’s boring and insipid. But I skipped around, and was hone...
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Michael J. Socolow is a media historian and professor at the University of Maine. His Substack is "The Lint Trap of History" - https://linttrapofhistory.substack.com/
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