What can the media learn from a decades-old report on the state of the American press?
, a magazine on urban policy established by the conservative Manhattan Institute, the writer Paul Starobin revisits theThe New York Times
,” journalists began to worry that this emphasis on the efficient conveyance of “facts” could leave reporters open to manipulation. In 1920, Walter Lippmann, one of the founding editors of, published an exhaustive examination of thecoverage of three years of the Russian revolution. They found that the paper had been overly credulous of the accounts of the State Department, the Russian Embassy, and others, publishing profoundly misleading stories on a subject of vast geopolitical importance.
The modern newspaper op-ed page, with its submissions from outside contributors, did not exist at the time of the commission; it only became aintroduced its version, in 1970. But it seems likely that the Hutchins Commission, if it existed today, would focus on the factual errors in the Cotton Op-Ed—theissued several corrections on the piece after publication—and on its capacity, and perhaps intention, to inflame, even as it would defend the’ goal of publishing a diversity of viewpoints.
Media outlets that might be said to subscribe to the central premise of the Hutchins Commission report—that the press has certain fundamental responsibilities to those it serves—are also growing harder to find. Digital platforms, which have become de-facto news destinations, don’t operate according to the principles of journalism. The outlets that comprise the right-wing media also follow their own lodestar.
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