A Critic of the Press

Guest: Jay Rosen, PhD, Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University and Founder, PressThink blog What makes you trust a specific journalist or media outlet in this day when we have so many choices and so many options coming straight to your Facebook feed? Media critic and New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen says what we consider “new media” – blogs and social media feeds – actually bear close resemblance to the press at the founding of America. Rosen’s own blog is called “PressThink.” During a visit to BYU last week, he spoke with my colleague Marcus Smith, host of Thinking Aloud.?