Lance Bennett is professor of political science and director of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington, United States.

Recent articles

The American media’s coverage of the 2003 Iraq war reinforces the pattern established in the wake of 9/11: a combination of intimidation, collusion, inattention, and ethnocentrism. A leading scholar of the media charts a dismal period in US journalism and asks whether a turn of the political tide offers hope of its revival.