![]() ![]() To that end, it calls on journalists and journalism scholars to work to shift the discourse of journalism, to characterise it as an essential, nonpartisan public good – one no different than education. The paper concludes that, while a ‘positive’ interpretation of the First Amendment would seem to demand such intervention, the window of opportunity has closed due to a range of political and economic forces that have either developed or become further entrenched over the past decade. McChesney and John Nichols’ The Death and Life of American Journalism in 2010 and continue up through Victor Pickard’s Democracy Without Journalism: Confronting the Misinformation Society in 2020. Through the lenses of First Amendment theory and political economy, the analysis examines a range of ideas and proposals that, in many ways, began with Robert W. commercial news industry, this paper explores more than a decade’s worth of scholarly arguments that government intervention and investment is the best solution to what many deem a crisis in American journalism. Amid concerns of ‘market failure’ in the U.S. ![]()
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