PEJ: “Journalism of Assertion”

The PEJ study finds that “cable news stories are more thinly reported than other news media,” USA Today’s Peter Johnson writes. “The 600-page report also finds that the traditional ‘journalism of verification’ — in which reporters check facts — is ceding ground to a new ‘journalism of assertion,’ in which information is offered on radio and cable talk shows and via Internet bloggers, with little or no attempt to verify the facts.”