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  • 9 - US Public Broadcasting: A Bulwark against Disinformation?

  • from Part V - The Role of Public Broadcasting
  • Edited by W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Steven Livingston, George Washington University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    The Disinformation Age
    Published online:
    06 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 October 2020, pp 213-237
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    Aufderheide asks: can US public broadcasting provide a unique bulwark againstdisinformation? There are ample reasons to look to the public broadcasting service, at a timewhen commercial journalism’s business model has eroded and disinformation from US andother governments as well as from commercial sources abounds. The service was foundedwith a Progressive-era rhetoric of service to an informed public, and it has withstood relentlessattacks from neoconservatives, although not without casualties. Public broadcasting has twoof the most trusted media brands in the USA, NPR and PBS. Aufderheide shows how thestructure of public broadcasting both limits its ability to serve as a counter to disinformation,and, also in some ways protects it against attacks.