What journalism could be

Brent Cunningham, writing in a recent issue of Columbia Journalism Review, gives us a well-thought out analysis of where current news media have fallen short, while showing what the profession could do to better serve America. The article quotes extensively from Pepperdine religion professor Richard Hughes, author of Myths America Lives By, a very thoughtful and provocative explanation of the larger narrative visions politicians evoke, and news media mindlessly reproduce, because these myths are so deeply embedded in the American cultural psyche.