A new book, Bey­ond Trust picks up some of the issues raised in Can You Trust The Media?

Here’s Kevin Marsh, sid­ing with Andrew Gil­ligan, in view­ing the book as nihilistic:

Journalism’s jour­ney – in Pro­fessor Larry Sabato’s (1991) descrip­tion – from ‘lap­dog, through watch­dog to junk­yard dog’ with all that entails in loss of pub­lic trust is, in part at least, legit­im­ised by a strand of aca­demic think­ing. Pro­fessor Adrian Monck of City Uni­ver­sity Lon­don, con­cluded in his book Can You Trust The Media? (2008) that we were mis­guided even to think that we should. Con­tinue read­ing →