The future of science news

Daedalus

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 57-65

  Kennedy, Donald ^a  

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EID: 77952932857     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/daed.2010.139.2.57     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Historians differ about Kahn's penchant for substituting fruit names for worrisome economic trends. Time magazine said it was about inflation, others say recession. There is a suspicion that the White House required Kahn to make the substitution.
2. See, for example, Eric Taub, "New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper," nytimes.com, September 7, 2008.
3. See also Ethan Zuckerman's essay in this issue on the future of international reporting.
4. Alex Jones's new book, Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), is a richer source of his argument that we are in danger of eroding our national faith in news that feeds democratic institutions.
5. A lively and highly readable exploration of this and other issues discussed here is Eric Alterman, "Out of Print-The Death and Life of the American Newspaper," The New Yorker, March 31, 2008.
6. See, for example, Christian Nolan, The Connecticut Law Tribune, March 6, 2008.
7. A recent op-ed by Maureen Dowd (The New York Times, August 25, 2009) calls further attention to the kind of personal mischief that can be caused by these efforts of blog vigilantism.
8. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/395/444.html.