By Clay Jenkinson The chaos of the last few years about “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and the press as “enemies of the people” has rattled America’s understanding of the search for truth, the reporting of facts and incidents, the role of the media in a free society, and the idea of “objectivity” in a post-literate, post-modern era. Although newspapers have served as the principal medium of news gathering and dissemination for almost four hundred years, they are an endangered species in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Since 2004, 1,800 newspapers have been discontinued in the United States, one ...
