«But when he declared that the newspapers were full of counter-revolutionary propaganda, and a delegate called out, ‘You’ve shut them all down,’ Lenin reacted fiercely, drawing applause from part of the audience: ‘Not all of them, yet, unfortunately, but we will.’»
Dmitri Volkogonov: «Lenin»
«Some analysts say that the Internet age has made the press less relevant. Fewer people today worship at the altar of daily journalism. Yet from the perspective of a public bathed in a “stream of blather and misinformation,” as Maureen Dowd puts it, the press is as indispensible as ever.87 Never before has so much information been available to us, and yet never before have we had a greater need for information grounded in facts rather than spin and speculation. Reliable information on the issues of the day is an increasingly scarce commodity, and citizen journalism can’t provide it on an everyday basis. “Serious reporting on national and international affairs isn’t for amateurs,” says Yale Law School’s Bruce Ackerman.88
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Journalists’ civic contribution will ultimately rest on whether through knowledge they are able to assert greater control over the facts. Journalists will falter, and ultimately fail, if their set of “facts” is seen by the public as little better than those offered up by talk show hosts, bloggers, and spin doctors. Knowledge offers journalists their best chance of delivering an authoritative version of the news, a point on which Dewey fully agreed with Lippmann. “The future of democracy is allied with the spread of the scientific attitude,” wrote Dewey. “It is the sole guarantee against wholesale misleading by propaganda».
Informing The News
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