democracy without journalism confronting the misinformation society

Candis and Chris discuss how Victor’s arguments about the assault on public media are similar to what we heard from Derek W. Victor Pickard, Democracy Without Journalism Confronting the Misinformation Society.

Examples like WBEZ’s recent acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times provide examples of what’s possible. In his new book Democracy Without Journalism Confronting the Misinformation Society, Victor Pickard explains why our commercialized media system is so dysfunctional and disliked and why the Left should make it a priority to build a better one. While professionalization was meant to resolve tensions between journalism's public service and profit imperatives, Pickard argues that it merely. Victor walks us through his vision for what a re-imagined public media ecosystem in the United States might look like and what it will take to get there. 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. In Democracy Without Journalism Victor Pickard argues that were overlooking the core roots of the crisis. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania and author of 'Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society.' We discuss the history of market failures and policy choices that led to the decline of local journalism and the spread of misinformation. Our guest this week says these things are all downstream from a much more fundamental disconnect between the need for a free press in a democracy and the models the United States has set up to make it happen. His most recent book is Democracy Without Journalism: Confronting the Misinformation Society. We’ve talked a lot on this show about the problems that news deserts, misinformation, and information silos present to democracy. Democracy without Journalism Confronting the Misinformation Society Victor Pickard.

Democracy without journalism confronting the misinformation society