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  • Why democracies need an unlovable press, Michael Schudson (Book Review)

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    Williams, Paul D.
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    There’s been a publishing boom in recent years in volumes pursuing the special relationship between media and democracy. Many hit the mark, but few hit it so convincingly and enjoyably, and in so few pages, as Schudson’s bluntly and cleverly titled ‘Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press’. Unusually, its 147 pages are aimed more at informed lay readers than academics, but the latter can’t help but take pleasure in this caper around themes that, while familiar, are tackled in novel ways. Schudson’s two main theses are clear: first, Western nations need an unsympathetic, even ‘unlovable’, press every bit as much as the separation ...
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    There’s been a publishing boom in recent years in volumes pursuing the special relationship between media and democracy. Many hit the mark, but few hit it so convincingly and enjoyably, and in so few pages, as Schudson’s bluntly and cleverly titled ‘Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press’. Unusually, its 147 pages are aimed more at informed lay readers than academics, but the latter can’t help but take pleasure in this caper around themes that, while familiar, are tackled in novel ways. Schudson’s two main theses are clear: first, Western nations need an unsympathetic, even ‘unlovable’, press every bit as much as the separation of powers or free, fair and frequent elections and, second, journalists must eschew their own cynicism and take democracy and its institutions more seriously. On the one hand, Schudson takes swipes at news gatherers and politicians in equal measure; on the other, he defends each with an old-fashioned gallantry.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Political Science
    Volume
    44
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10361140903312755
    Copyright Statement
    © 2009 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Political Science on 10 Nov 2009, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10361140903312755
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    Policy and administration
    Political science
    Political science not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/75168
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