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BOOKS | Barking dogs and sinking ships: Journalism’s search for metaphor and meaning

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Thorne Dreyer

Dean Starkman explains why journalists often aren’t alert watchdogs, but he can’t see why limiting the profession to the role of a barking dog is, quite literally, a dead end. By Robert Jensen | The Rag Blog | April 2, … Continue reading →

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