From Zocalo Public Square:
The media – a so-called “fourth branch of government” – has an obligation to remind us not of our partisan, ethnic, gender, or geographic identities, but of our democratic identity. … Jennifer M. Ramos is associate professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University and visiting associate researcher at UC Irvine.

For the full story, please visit http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/10/22/can-sensationalism-save-democracy/ideas/up-for-discussion/#Jennifer+M.+Ramos+.