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The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism
Vintage
October 2013
On Sale: October 8, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 0345806603
EAN: 9780345806604
Kindle: B00CCPIKH6
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Non-Fiction
As the journalist Walter Lippmann noted nearly a century
ago, democracy falters “if there is no steady supply of
trustworthy and relevant news.” Today’s journalists are not
providing it. Too often, reporters give equal weight to
facts and biased opinion, stir up small controversies, and
substitute infotainment for real news. Even when they get
the facts rights, they often misjudge the context in which
they belong.
Information is the
lifeblood of a healthy democracy. Public opinion and debate
suffer when citizens are misinformed about current affairs,
as is increasingly the case. Though the failures of today’s
communication system cannot be blamed solely on the news
media, they are part of the problem, and the best hope for
something better.
Patterson proposes
“knowledge-based journalism” as a corrective. Unless
journalists are more deeply informed about the subjects they
cover, they will continue to misinterpret them and to be
vulnerable to manipulation by their sources. In this book,
derived from a multi-year initiative of the Carnegie
Corporation and the Knight Foundation, Patterson calls for
nothing less than a major overhaul of journalism practice
and education. The book speaks not only to journalists but
to all who are concerned about the integrity of the
information on which America’s democracy depends.
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