“The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril, News Matters” by Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser is about what good journalism is and what the role of journalism in media is, comparing to other media that just try to make benefits.
There are tons of ways we contact any information to know what’s going on in our communities as we read newspapers, listen to the radio and watch TV programs. However, would we realize what information from media is clear facts and isn’t overstatements? I think journalism provides definite information that we really want to hear and share the facts that we want to know with our communities.
Journalism observes everything in the communities with an objective and critical point of view like corruption in government and misbegotten policies as we can see through the media when other media tries to concentrate on how more they could make benefits and pay people’s attention. As we read some reports from some states of the U.S in the reading passage, journalism tried to report everything in detail for the public in order to make people know what was exactly going on in each community even if the events were veiled. Moreover journalism makes people function together as a community. It shares the ideas with people, and makes people participate in the community with the ideas they share. Journalism is an easily accessible way to the community.
There are still floating information overemphasized and misinformed by the huge publicly owned corporations in which focus on only benefits. The more it happens the less journalism appears through any media. People positively need to be more interested in journalism if they want to obtain the true.
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