Media: Determining Authority and Values

When I first sat down with the article “The Political News Media” by Thomas Cook, I was worried. Judging the book the article was published in by its cover (Governing with the News). I believed I was in for a persuasive piece on why the news media is not only biased, but is liberal. I was reassured moments later as I read, “reporters [do not] have political axes to grind.”

Instead, this article was very ...