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Trust Me: News, Credibility Deficits, and Balance
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Trust Me: News, Credibility Deficits, and Balance

Carrie Figdor
Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy, pp.69-86
Routledge
2019
DOI: 10.4324/9780203702444-5

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Abstract

When a democratic society is characterised by a climate of distrust, how does this impact the practice of journalism? This paper considers a special case of the question: the society in question is the contemporary United States, the type of journalism is objective news journalism, and the impact considered is with regard to the practice of balance.

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