Description
| Product ID: | 9781733623780 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Ghosting the News |
| Subtitle: | Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy |
| Authors: | Author: Margaret Sullivan |
| Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, Political structure and processes, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Information technology industries, Political structure & processes, Regional government, Information technology industries, USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Local journalism is on the verge of extinction and this is bad for democracy. This book explains why. "An excellent introduction to the essential problem of our republic. With a wake-up call like this one, we still have a chance." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. From 2004 to 2015, 1,800 print newspaper outlets closed in the US. One in five news organizations in Canada has closed since 2008. One in three Brazilians lives in news deserts. The absence of accountability journalism has created an atmosphere in which indicted politicians were elected, school superintendents were mismanaging districts, and police chiefs were getting mysterious payouts. This is not the much-discussed fake-news problem—it''s the separate problem of a critical shortage of real news. America''s premier media critic, Margaret Sullivan, charts the contours of the damage, and surveys a range of new efforts to keep local news alive—from non-profit digital sites to an effort modeled on the Peace Corps. No nostalgic paean to the roar of rumbling presses, Ghosting the News instead sounds a loud alarm, alerting citizens to a growing crisis in local news that has already done serious damage. |
| Imprint Name: | Columbia Global Reports |
| Publisher Name: | Columbia Global Reports |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-08-27 |
