Live-blogging Midmorning: Is partisan news good for America?

Blogger James O’Keefe’s takedown of NPR is the latest incident in what appears to be a growing battle between conservative news outlets and the mainstream media, and raises questions about the future of news in America. Is partisan news what Americans want, and is it good for our democracy?

Midmorning is tackling the question with guests:

CW Anderson: Assistant professor of media culture at the College of Staten Island and a research fellow at Yale Law School and the New America Foundation.

Tom Rosenstiel: Founder and director of Project for Excellence in Journalism. He is co-author with Bill Kovach of “Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload.”

I’m live-blogging the conversation. Please share your thoughts and I’ll select the best ones to mention on air.

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About the blogger

Bob Collins

bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.