{"id":4608,"date":"2004-12-02T07:16:16","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T07:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2004-12-02T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T07:16:16","slug":"why-does-the-quality-of-journalism-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4608","title":{"rendered":"why does the quality of journalism matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an article in the Fall 2004 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.org\/publications\/ncr\/\">National Civic Review <\/a>entitled &#8220;Journalism and Democracy: Does it Matter How Well the Press Covers Iraq?&#8221; It&#8217;s not online yet, but I&#8217;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/NCR_Iraq.pdf\">.pdf of the final draft that I submitted to NCR<\/a>. The same issue of the <i>Review <\/i>also contains articles by my friends Cole Campbell, Rich Harwood, and Lew Friedland on various aspects of journalism and public life. Many similar themes are evident in all three pieces.<\/p>\n<p>My article mostly appeared first in this blog, in short segments. I submitted it many months ago, so it describes the 2004 election as a future event and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\/\">Andrew Sullivan <\/a>as a pro-war blogger (no longer true). I think I pose a fairly difficult question about why the quality of press coverage matters. I am not persuaded that we merely need good reporting to help us decide whom to support in the next presidential election; so I consider some alternative rationales. Unfortunately, my piece does a better job of raising questions than answering them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an article in the Fall 2004 National Civic Review entitled &#8220;Journalism and Democracy: Does it Matter How Well the Press Covers Iraq?&#8221; It&#8217;s not online yet, but I&#8217;ve posted a .pdf of the final draft that I submitted to NCR. The same issue of the Review also contains articles by my friends Cole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-criticism","category-iraq-and-democratic-theory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}