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Losing the News
The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy
Alex S. Jones
256 pages
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208x138mm
978-0-19-518123-4
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Hardback
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10 September 2009
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- Penned by a prestigious, Pulitzer-prize-winning author
- Part of the high-profile, prestigious Annenberg Institutions in American Democracy Series
- Combines an engaging narrative with a sophisticated timely analysis of the modern-day media
What is wrong with the news?
To answer this dismaying question, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones explores how the epochal changes sweeping the media have eroded the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy.
At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones says that what stands to be lost is the fact-based reporting that serves as a watchdog over government, holds the powerful accountable, and gives citizens what they need. In a tumultuous new media era, with cutthroat competition and panic over profits, the commitment of the traditional news media
to serious news is fading. Should we lose a critical mass of this news, our democracy will weaken—and possibly even begin to fail.
The breathtaking possibilities that the web offers are undeniable, but at what cost? The shattering of the old economic model is taking a toll on journalistic values and standards. Journalistic objectivity and ethics are under assault, as is the bastion of the First Amendment. Pundits and talk show hosts have persuaded Americans that the crisis in news is bias and partisanship. Not so, says Jones. The real crisis is the erosion of the iron core of "accountability" news, a loss that hurts Republicans and Democrats alike.
Losing the News is a vivid depiction of the dangers facing fact-based, reported news, but it is also a
call to arms. Despite the current crisis, there are many hopeful signs, and Jones closes by looking over the horizon and exploring ways the iron core can be preserved.Readership: Students and Scholars of Government & Mass Communications, Politics & the Media ,New Communications Technologies, Government and Public Affairs Reporting
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Alex S. Jones, Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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"Alex Jones brings a special perspective to the decline of the American newspaper industry...this is a good read...It is all fascinating stuff" - Ivor Gaber, Times Higher Education Supplement
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Prologue: The Crisis
1.: The Iron Core
2.: Media and Democracy
3.: Objectivity's Last Stand
4.: Media Ethics- The Painful Balance
5.: My Family's Story
6.: The Curious History of the News Business
7.: The Fragile First Amendment
8.: The Newspaper Question
9.: The New News Media
10.: Preserving The Core
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