Journalism and Free Press

Book of the Day: Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, edited by Kristina Borjesson.

Is there a "Free Press" in the United States? Does this "Fourth Estate" fulfill a role as watchdog over the government and business, serving the public interest? Do our news organizations work to enhance and preserve an informed democracy? Evidently not.

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