• DOI:10.1080/17512786.2012.683273
• Corpus ID: 149010028

FAREWELL TO JOURNALISM?

@article{McChesney2012FAREWELLTJ,
  title={FAREWELL TO JOURNALISM?},
  author={Robert W. McChesney},
  journal={Journalism Practice},
  year={2012},
  volume={6},
  pages={614 - 626},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:149010028}
}

• R. McChesney
• Published 1 October 2012
• Political Science
• Journalism Practice

Journalism is in freefall collapse in the United States, and, to varying degrees, elsewhere. Unless there is a dramatic rethinking in the United States, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, all signs point to a continued deterioration of journalism. By all known political theory this means the continuation of credible democratic governance will be impossible. Hence this is a crisis of the greatest possible magnitude. There is considerable consensus in democratic theory and among journalism… 

Journalism is in freefall collapse in the United States, and, to varying degrees, elsewhere. Unless there is a dramatic rethinking in the United States, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, all signs point to a continued deterioration of journalism. By all known political theory this means the continuation of credible democratic governance will be impossible. Hence this is a crisis of the greatest possible magnitude. There is considerable consensus in democratic theory and among journalism scholars (see Christians et al., 2009) about what a healthy journalism should entail: