Abstract
This chapter addresses an underappreciated source of epistemic dysfunction in today’s media environment: true-but-unrepresentative information. Because media organizations are under tremendous competitive pressure to craft news that is in harmony with their audience’s preexisting beliefs, they have an incentive to accurately report on events and incidents that are selected, consciously or not, to support an impression that is exaggerated or ideologically convenient. Moreover, these organizations have to engage in this practice in order to survive in a hypercompetitive news environment.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Media and Society after Technological Disruption |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 18-34 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781009174411 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781009174428 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2024 |
Keywords
- First Amendment
- Freedom of speech
- Journalism
- Journalistic ethics
- Media law
- Trust
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences