"good journalism."
However, I don't know if the website addresses any of the huge challenges that face the modern day public.
Under the section "Interlocking public" and the discussion there of how the government once tried to enable the public, through education and through the post office, to have an adequate choice of various points of view regarding news, there doesn't seem to be even a mere mention of how the "airwaves" are now basically owned by a few outlets, all beholden to one or another Huge Modern Day Industry. How could we have had an intelligent discussion of our "need" to go to war against Iraq during 2002 and 2003, when GE is one of the biggest holders of TV airwaves?
Networks are also aware that at the beginning of any war, there is a surge in viewership. So it is to the economic advantage of any of the major TV outlets to have a war - they immediately begin to capture more of an audience and can charge more for the advertising!
And advertising itself brings a host of problems relating to truth and journalism. For example: We will not see any type of discussion of the serious health risks of "air fresheners" and disinfectants such as spray-able Lysol as long as the advertising budgets of many networks are held enthralled to the Big Monies offered up by the Household Product conglomerates. For whatever reason, young women are now being exposed to serious and fast acting lung cancers, even though young women are no longer exposed to second hand smoke. There should be a discussion as to whether or not Febreeze and Glade are shortening women's lives, but that is not likely to happen due to advertising and its stranglehold on news teams.
Likewise, there is a ban on any discussion of the vaccine risks vs benefit as long as the Pharmaceutical Industry keeps its advertising resources enslaving the local news networks to avoid the topic. Just as cigarette ads kept the dangers of cig usage out of sight for decades, now we have the same problem with vaccines. People in France re far more likely to understand what a specific vaccine's risk vs benefit is than any American here - our news teams are all under a "quash order" from the TV executives. (Less than 20 years ago, "The San Francisco Chronicle" was responsible for a scathing review of the Vaccine Industry due to the the dirt, bacterial material, viral material and filth that was apparent to reporters investigating the laboratories where vaccines are produced, but now that newspaper is enslaved by Big Pharma's ads.)
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