Public Journalism and Public Life: Why Telling the News Is Not Enough

by Davis Merritt

Public life in America is in trouble. We find ourselves seemingly unwilling or unable to solve long-standing problems. The political part of public life is viewed with growing cynicism by increasingly disaffected citizens. At the same time, journalism is also in trouble. Much of what journalists do is seen by citizens as the product of a discredited political class. By every statistical measure, journalism is not trusted, not believed, and seen as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805819835
• ISBN13: 9780805819830
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for those wanting to improve journalism

Although he doesn't give any real examples of how to apply public journalism, Buzz Merritt explains the concept clearly and in a way that makes you realize how wrong the media is today. This book should be included in every journalism professor's classroom. If future reporters could understand what is needed by them, then maybe the public would start trusting the media and not lumping them in with the same category as politicians