Summing Up Westin’s Speech

This local newspaper sums up David Westin‘s speech at the Chautauqua Institution yesterday:

“David Westin has heard plenty of complaints about television news. News organizations don’t cover the right stories, or pursue the wrong angles, or are biased and influenced by special-interest groups, critics say.

But for Westin, the real difference between right and wrong in journalism concerns ‘how closely we are covering the news.'” More…