Confidence Game: The Limited Vision of the News Gurus (Columbia Journalism Review Books)

Annotation Dean Starkman takes on what has become a dominant perspective on the future of news in the digital age as personified by three well known media thinkers Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and Jeff Jarvis who have dominated the "future of news" debate. Starkman makes a powerful case that the perspective that these three represent, despite their many useful insights, is in the end corrosive to public-service journalism