Preventive Journalism

It seems odd to speak of "preventive journalism" and preventive democracy in the same breath when it is a known fact that the media anre more focused on conflict and controversy than peace. War has become defines as news while peace certainly has not. What is good for the world, in other words, is not necessarily good for the news business. News contimually generates hostile feelings in the people that it reaches. International relations have …

…reforming the media to be an effective source of preventive journalism may seem remote. But what is remote when time has collapsed and taday is already yeaterday, and tomorrow is today, and the future is tomorrow? Many facts argue against the pssibility of preventive journalism, such as cost and resistance to change. However, we are living in an age when what seemed probable to experts never happened, and what seemed impossible became a daily surprise.