BY ROBERT JENSEN 

Robert Jensen's critique of Thomas Patterson's book, Informing the News, explores the gaps left by Patterson's narrow definition of excellence as bounded by the ideology of the powerful.

BY THOMAS E. PATTERSON 

Thomas Patterson agrees with Robert Jensen's critique of Informing the News; he disagrees with his solution.

BY KENNETH F. BUNTING 

Kenneth Bunting reminds journalists, practicing and aspiring ones, that we are in the truth business, not the blame game.

BY EDWARD WASSERMAN 

Edward Wasserman point out to the press why the miracle of sources, people willing to come forward and speak up, should be respected.

BY RAYMOND FIELDING

Raymond Fielding explores the human fascination with the grotesque and horrific, and its reflection in doomsday programming.

BY JOSEPH MARREN AND JASON GRINNELL

A view of New York City in the 1970s as seen through the philisophical lens of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan.

BY JERRY LANSON

Jerry Lanson on the risk news organizations take in ignoring the small stories.

BY MANNY PARASCHOS

Manny Paraschos asks if there should be a zero tolerance policy on paid interviews and whether the Washington Post really had to set the record straight and muscular.

BY TOM COOPER

Tom Cooper outlines some of the issues discussed at the 2014 PTC.

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Category: Spring 2014, Vol. 25, No. 2

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