What kind of news do we need for democracy?
A friend of mine just gave me this info about a book published in 2003. "Journalism can do little to reduce the political imbalance between citizens and the economic, political and other organizations that dominate America" said Herbert J. Gans in a very well informed book dedicated to the American journalism in the twentieth century. The sociologist is not 100% pessimistic... if journalists succeed in changing their current news practices. Few weeks ago the "2004 State of the Media" report said more or less the same thing.
The book: Democracy and the News, by Herbert J. Gans, Oxford University Press.
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