Press Think

by Conor Friedersdorf

In an interview with The Economist, Jay Rosen says a lot that's true.

Examples:

-- "I do not think journalists should "join the team". They bridle at that,
for good reason. Power-seeking and truth-seeking are different
behaviours, and this is how we distinguish politics from journalism."

-- "When both parties are closed to certain ideas, the news system becomes
closed to them, too. Not good."

-- "Victor Navasky, the former publisher of the Nation, likes to say that...