Factual knowledge in the age of truthiness

The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 104-113

  Schudson, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84880718789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203878453     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. Michael P. Lynch, True to Life (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), 1.
2. Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America (New York: Penguin Press, 2006).
3. Ron Suskind, "Without A Doubt," New York Times Magazine, 17 October 2004.
4. Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 5.
5. Rich, The Greatest Story, 2.
6. Hannah Arendt, "Truth and Politics" in Arendt, Between Past and Future (New York: Viking Press, 1968), p. 227.
7. Arendt, "Truth and Politics," 231.
8. Arendt, "Truth and Politics," 238.
9. Arendt, "Truth and Politics," 239.
10. Arendt, "Truth and Politics," 261.
11. Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007). Originally published in 1920.
12. For an excellent account of news coverage of US detainee abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq, see Eric Umansky, "Failures of Imagination," Columbia Journalism Review (September/October 2006).
13. Arendt, "Truth and Politics," 260.
14. Raymond Geuss paraphrasing Habermas. Cited in Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002), 225.
15. Ken Auletta, Backstory (New York: Penguin Books, 2003), xvii.