I take the media to task on a regular basis. That is why I was so pleased to find PressThink.
Jay Rosen is a professor at NYU who “has been a leading figure in the reform movement known as “public journalism,” which calls on the press to take a more active role in strengthening citizenship, improving political debate and reviving public life.”
He has some pretty solid values, in my ever-so-humble opinion.
We need to keep the press from being absorbed into The Media. This means keeping the word press, which is antiquated. But included under its modern umbrella should be all who do the serious work in journalism, regardless of the technology used. The people who will invent the next press in America–and who are doing it now online–continue an experiment at least 250 years old.
If you’ve not read any of his work, take the time to do so. This particular essay is, appropriately, about how Reagan “Beat the Press.”