Of the many low points in the media’s handling of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, CNN’s hiring of former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as a political commentator may be the lowest.
When I was a reporter, I would sometimes find myself asking: How do I make people care? On my braver days, I began with a bigger question: What do people in my community care about, and why?
The Federal Trade Commission's final workshop on changes in the media business, “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?," ended with the sense that only limited policy recommendations would come out of the session, at least in terms of recommendations by the FTC.
Yet in a larger sense, the convening of publishers, industry analysts and academics revealed a surprising development: a growing consensus that some public policy intervention in media is not only possible, it's already happened.
