Abstract
The first three articles in this issue have at least two features in common. Each represents an effort to evaluate news media performance. The first looks at the “disastrous” 2000 presidential election-night projections and examines how the news media tried to explain the errors, relying first on news personnel as sources and later involving independent, non-media sources. The second article provides an overview of a large body of research conducted to evaluate performance of “public journalism.” The third uses a narrower case-study approach to evaluate whether television call-in programs, C-SPAN in particular, constitute a deliberative space in the public sphere where citizen discussion and democratic participation can occur.
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