دانلود کتاب اخلاق روزنامه نگاری در چهارراه – دموکراسی، اخبار جعلی و بحران خبری

This is not the book we intended to write. At the beginning of 2020 we were half-way through the writing process when the world was turned upside down. We all started talking about ‘the ’rona’ and a new medical term entered our conversations: COVID-19. Life would never be the same again. The issues we had been writing about—the changes in the state of mainstream media worldwide and the impact that was having on journalistic ethics—expanded exponentially. The major crises facing journalism in 2019—falling trust in the media, the failing economics of the industry, the effects of digital technologies, and the fight against fake news—were swamped by the tsunami of the coronavirus pandemic. Then, in October 2020, President Donald Trump announced he too was infected with SARS-CoV-2 as the coronavirus is officially known (Wu et al. 2020). This truly was the ‘October Surprise’ of the 2020 US presidential election race that, once again, upended any certainties and conventions surrounding the campaign. The campaign, the 3 November election, and the aftermath kept the entire world on the edge of its seat: Trump refused to concede and made outrageous false claims about the election being ‘stolen’ from him. The media environment had become so toxic by this time that tens of millions of Americans believed Trump’s lies. America was plunged into political turmoil.