Thursday, July 5, 2018

What The Press Is (And Isn’t) And Why It Needs To Be Reinvented)

Objectivity has totally failed, and we have to question whether there ever was such an animal in the first place. Christopher Lasch has brilliantly argued that it was manufactured by those who needed a sterile environment within which to sell advertising, and I don’t disagree. That sterile environment was also very useful for the selling of ideas, which is the role of public relations – the spin doctors.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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