Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent
journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This
question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist
and media scholar Michael Schudson. Focusing on the U.S. media but
seeing them in a comparative context, Schudson brings his
understanding of news as at once a story-telling and fact-centered
practice to bear on a variety of controversies about what public
knowledge today is and what it should be. Should experts have a
role in governing democracies? Is news melodramatic or is it ironic
- or is it both at different times? In the title essay, Schudson
even suggests that journalism serves the interests of free
expression and democracy best when it least lives up to the demands
of media critics for deep thought and analysis; passion for the
sensational event may be news at its democratically most powerful.
Lively, provocative, unconventional, and deeply informed by a rich
understanding of journalism's history, this work collects the best
of Schudson's recent writings, including several pieces published
here for the first time.
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