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In Burning off the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing go through the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes that are eroding the center news that is the essential food supply of our democracy. At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones thinks that what stands to be lost is the fact-based reporting that functions as a watchdog over government, retains the powerful responsible, and gives people what they need. In the tumultuous new media time, with cutthroat competition and worry over profits, the commitment of the traditional press to serious reports is fading. Indeed, as digital technology shatters the old economical model, the news media is making an agonizing passage that is taking a toll on journalistic beliefs and standards. Journalistic objectivity and ethics are under assault, as is the bastion of the First Amendment. Jones characterizes himself not as a pessimist about reports, but a realist. The amazing possibilities that the web offers are undeniable, but at what cost? Pundits and discussion show hosts have persuaded Americans that the turmoil in reports is bias and partisanship. Not so, says Jones. The real turmoil is the erosion of the flat iron core of reports, something that hurts Republicans and Democrats similarly. Burning off the Media depicts an unsettling situation where the American birthright of fact-based, reported reports is in danger. But it is also a call to forearms to struggle to keep the core of reports intact.
