The Sociology of News Quotes

“What do you do with the market? You follow where others have led, asserting journalistic values against corporate assault, building formal economic structures that reduce dependence on Wall Street, developing a range of audience loyalties that enables you to bore or offend some of the audience some of the time without losing them.”
― Michael Schudson, The Sociology of News

“The media can profit from reporting scandal, but they can also lose, when their audience finds the reporting unpersuasive.”
― Michael Schudson, The Sociology of News

“As professionalism in broadcast news manifested itself in shorter sound bites, professionalism in print produced longer stories.”
― Michael Schudson, The Sociology of News