Boston Globe | University of Connecticut
A new
survey reveals significant disagreements between journalists and the general public over the quality of today's reporting and the boundaries of press freedom, reports
Mark Jurkowitz. The University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy found that only 3% of the journalists said the US press has too much freedom, while 43% of the public felt the news media are given excessive leeway. Although 95% of the journalists strongly agreed that newspapers should be allowed ''to publish freely without governmental approval of a story," only 55% of the public strongly agreed.
