The document discusses the purpose and future of journalism. It states that journalism is meant to provide citizens with information to be self-governing, and was considered a fundamental right by the Founding Fathers. However, journalism is now facing threats such as the internet, shifts in media consumption, and arrogance within the field. The document also examines the theory of an "interlocking public" with varying levels of interest in news versus the traditional view of an ignorant public that journalists inform.

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The Purpose of Journalism
And Why Its Future Is at Risk
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What is journalism for?
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What is journalism for?
“The primary purpose of journalism is to provide citizens
with the information they need to be free and self-
governing.”
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Journalism is so fundamental to the concept of creating
community and democracy that…
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Journalism is so fundamental to the concept of creating
community and democracy that…
a free press was among the first rights the Founding
Fathers of this country felt it necessary to secure in the Bill
of Rights:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a
redress of grievances.
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Journalism is so fundamental to the concept of creating
community and democracy that…
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Journalism is so fundamental to the concept of creating
community and democracy that…
societies that want to suppress freedom must first
suppress the press.
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Journalism is so fundamental to the concept of creating
community and democracy that…
societies that want to suppress freedom must first
suppress the press.
Recent Examples?
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Threats to Journalism Today
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Threats to Journalism Today
•Internet
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Threats to Journalism Today
•Internet
•Shifts in reader/consumer behaviors
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Threats to Journalism Today
•Internet
•Shifts in reader/consumer behaviors
•Government
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Threats to Journalism Today
•Internet
•Shifts in reader/consumer behaviors
•Government
•Self-destructive behaviors and attitudes
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Threats to Journalism Today
•Internet
•Shifts in reader/consumer behaviors
•Government
•Self-destructive behaviors and attitudes
•Corporate conglomerations
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Threats to Journalism Today
•Internet
•Shifts in reader/consumer behaviors
•Government
•Self-destructive behaviors and attitudes
•Corporate conglomerations
•Globalization
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Threats from the Internet
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Threats from the Internet
•Blogs
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Threats from the Internet
•Blogs
•Citizen journalism
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Threats from the Internet
•Blogs
•Citizen journalism
•Movement of advertising away from traditional media
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Threats from the Internet
•Blogs
•Citizen journalism
•Movement of advertising away from traditional media
•News aggregators
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Self-destructive Behaviors and Attitudes
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Self-destructive Behaviors and Attitudes
•Plagiarism, betraying public trust
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Self-destructive Behaviors and Attitudes
•Plagiarism, betraying public trust
•Responding to business pressures by appealing lowest
common denominator
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Self-destructive Behaviors and Attitudes
•Plagiarism, betraying public trust
•Responding to business pressures by appealing lowest
common denominator
•Arrogance about journalism’s gatekeeper role
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Journalistic Arrogance and the Theory of Democracy
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Journalistic Arrogance and the Theory of Democracy
Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922)
•Democracy an unattainable end due to the media’s
weaknesses and the public’s disinterest and
ignorance
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Journalistic Arrogance and the Theory of Democracy
Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922)
•Democracy an unattainable end due to the media’s
weaknesses and the public’s disinterest and
ignorance
John Dewey, Review of Public Opinion (1922)
•Democracy (and, thus, reliable journalism) not an
ends but a means; the end is individual liberty and
self-realization, not efficient government
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Journalistic Arrogance and the Theory of Democracy
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Journalistic Arrogance and the Theory of Democracy
•Lippmann’s view of the populace still influential
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Journalistic Arrogance and the Theory of Democracy
•Lippmann’s view of the populace still influential
•This view of the elitist press deciding what the ignorant
common person needs to know has alienated citizens
from the journalism they need to remain free
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Journalistic Arrogance and the Theory of Democracy
•Lippmann’s view of the populace still influential
•This view of the elitist press deciding what the ignorant
common person needs to know has alienated citizens
from the journalism they need to remain free
•This is the context in which Kovach and Rosenstiel
propose the Theory of the Interlocking Public
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The Theory of the Interlocking Public
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The Theory of the Interlocking Public
Involved
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The Theory of the Interlocking Public
Involved Interested
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The Theory of the Interlocking Public
Involved Interested
Uninterested
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What will we do if newspaper go under?
How will our news change?
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