Appalling Spread of False Information Requires Stronger Media Accountability
"A free press is supposed to function as our democracy's immune system against . . . gross errors of fact and understanding," wrote Al Gore in his book, The Assault on Reason. But it doesn't - as Gore explains -- and that is what makes the mass media one of the most important obstacles to social and economic progress in the 21st century.
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A 2008 study by the Center for Public Integrity, "The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to ...
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