![]() ![]() ![]() His new book is Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society. He has written widely about media, the news, communication, and democracy. In Democracy Without Journalism Victor Pickard argues that were overlooking the core roots of the crisis. Victor Pickard, Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-Director of Media, Inequality & Change Center. Journalism is essential to a democracy – can there be democracy without journalism? Today, as the term “fake news” is both a real phenomenon, and a weapon in the service of propagandists, it is harder for the public to tell what is truth and what is not. ![]() With a constitutionally guaranteed “freedom of the press,” journalism flourished and by and large, journalists showed a healthy skepticism of power and elites showed the press a modicum of respect. FEATURING VICTOR PICKARD – There was a time when American journalism was considered the envy of the world. ![]()
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