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Yet more thoughts on journalism and democracy
I‘ve been pondering the relationship between journalism and democracy of late, and so too have the academic commenters gathering at the blog of Social Science Research Council boss, Craig Calhoun. Calhoun asks the question Sam Zell has already answered – What is the future of newspapers? And when social scientists smell blood, they’re mostly rubbing…
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Public relations: pros and cons of the open-door policy
Jonathan Rauch, writing about GM’s electric car project – the Volt – has an excellent example of the PR risks that go with an open-door media policy (a strategy that almost all journalists would advocate). Rauch locates his own piece within GM’s public relations strategy (in the print edition there’s an ad for the Volt,…