What is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism
Description
In the face of all the problems that are currently plaguing serious news, What Is Happening
to News explores the crucial question of how journalism lost its way. Veteran
editor and newspaperman Jack Fuller locates the surprising sources of change
where no one has thought to look before: in the collision between a revolutionary
new information age and a human brain that is still wired for the threats faced
by our prehistoric ancestors.
Drawing on the dramatic recent discoveries of
neuroscience, Fuller explains why the information overload of contemporary life
makes us dramatically more receptive to sensational news, while rendering the
staid, objective voice of standard journalism ineffective. Throw in a growing
distrust of experts and authority, ably capitalized on by blogs and other interactive
media, and the result is a toxic mix that threatens to prove fatal to journalism
as we know it.
Speaker: Jack Fuller
Location
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
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