Jones, Alex S.

Losing the news : the uncertain future of the news that feeds democracy / Alex S. Jones. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xix, 234 p. ; 22 cm. - Institutions of American democracy . - Institutions of American democracy series. .

"The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania." Includes index.

The iron core -- Media and democracy -- The fragile First Amendment -- Objectivity's last stand -- Media ethics : the painful balance -- The curious story of news -- Newspapers on the brink -- The new news media -- Saving the news.

Examines the accountability of fact-based news reporting in the early twenty-first century, and discusses the impact of the Internet on reported news, journalistic objectivity and ethics, and other topics.



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Journalism--Political aspects--United States.
Journalism--Economic aspects--United States.
Journalism--Objectivity--United States.
Journalistic ethics--United States.
Journalism--Political aspects.--United States
Journalism--Economic aspects.--United States
Journalism--Ethical aspects.--United States

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