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Democracy without Journalism? - Confronting the Misinformation Society (Hardcover)
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Democracy without Journalism? - Confronting the Misinformation Society (Hardcover)
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As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up
across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis.
Meanwhile, continuous revelations about the role that major media
outlets-from Facebook to Fox News-play in the spread of
misinformation have exposed deep pathologies in American
communication systems. Despite these threats to democracy, policy
responses have been woefully inadequate. In Democracy Without
Journalism? Victor Pickard argues that we're overlooking the core
roots of the crisis. By uncovering degradations caused by run-amok
commercialism, he brings into focus the historical antecedents,
market failures, and policy inaction that led to the implosion of
commercial journalism and the proliferation of misinformation
through both social media and mainstream news. The problem isn't
just the loss of journalism or irresponsibility of Facebook, but
the very structure upon which our profit-driven media system is
built. The rise of a "misinformation society" is symptomatic of
historical and endemic weaknesses in the American media system
tracing back to the early commercialization of the press in the
1800s. While professionalization was meant to resolve tensions
between journalism's public service and profit imperatives, Pickard
argues that it merely camouflaged deeper structural maladies.
Journalism has always been in crisis. The market never supported
the levels of journalism-especially local, international, policy,
and investigative reporting-that a healthy democracy requires.
Today these long-term defects have metastasized. In this book,
Pickard presents a counter-narrative that shows how the modern
journalism crisis stems from media's historical over-reliance on
advertising revenue, the ascendance of media monopolies, and a lack
of public oversight. He draws attention to the perils of monopoly
control over digital infrastructures and the rise of platform
monopolies, especially the "Facebook problem." He looks to
experiments from the Progressive and New Deal Eras-as well as
public media models around the world-to imagine a more reliable and
democratic information system. The book envisions what a new kind
of journalism might look like, emphasizing the need for a publicly
owned and democratically governed media system. Amid growing
scrutiny of unaccountable monopoly control over media institutions
and concerns about the consequences to democracy, now is an
opportune moment to address fundamental flaws in US news and
information systems and push for alternatives. Ultimately, the goal
is to reinvent journalism.
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