My prayers for a new way to think about the so-called crisis over “trust” in the press have been answered thanks to media scholar Matthew Pressman’s erudite new history, On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News. Journalism has changed measurably since the 1960s, he writes, and those changes have altered how we regard the news and why opinion surveys show that fewer and fewer people seem to trust it.
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