Media Literacy Challenge #11: Define “journalism”
โJournalismโ is not some universal and unchanging ideal, sometimes reverently called โthe 4th estateโ because it theoretically sits outside the three branches of government in order to hold them accountable.
But in fact there are many โjournalisms,โ and โthe mediaโ in which they work has come to us through many historically contingent iterations that could be described as byproducts of the technology, business, and politics of their time, and but for a few accidents of timing could look totally different than they do today.
