{"id":1539,"date":"2008-10-01T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2008-10-01T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T20:52:16","slug":"the-informed-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/10\/the-informed-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"The informed citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">A<\/span>s the intellectual battle to provide business models for journalism continues, so that the informed citizen can carry on being &#8211; well &#8211; informed, I thought you might like to see the latest from my favourite American sociologist <strong>Michael Schudson<\/strong> on journalism and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>And whilst I was looking I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pccj.org\/batten\/schudson.html\">this burst of Schudson wisdom<\/a> from 1999:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]he informed citizen&#8221; model itself is ripe for reconsideration. We have to find a place in popular rhetoric and democratic theory for the use of specialized or expert knowledge. <\/p>\n<p>This is a task that merits renewed attention: the quest for a language of public life that reconciles democracy and expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Civic journalism will be making a mistake if it opts for a kind of sloppy populism. Anything the experts do must be tainted. Anything that happens at the grass roots receives the benefit of a doubt. <\/p>\n<p>That, I think, is the wrong impulse. I think we have to rely on expert knowledge. We just have to know &#8211; and we don&#8217;t &#8211; how and where and in what manner that expertise fits into a democratic process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the intellectual battle to provide business models for journalism continues, so that the informed citizen can carry on being &#8211; well &#8211; informed, I thought you might like to see the latest from my favourite American sociologist Michael Schudson on journalism and democracy. And whilst I was looking I came across this burst of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1836,1790,1838,2408,1834,1835,1837],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-bob-dole","tag-democracy","tag-informed-citizen","tag-journalism","tag-michael-schudson","tag-san-diego","tag-ted-koppel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}