Media Responsibility

About the Book

The writing focuses on the responsibility media has in today’s society.  Too frequently, the accuracy, reliability and validity of media stories is questioned.  As noted in the introduction, “what is the public to believe, and what guidelines are available to weigh what is or is not true?  Solid, factual reporting is freely mixed with opinions.” It goes on to say that ”clearly the book is not designed as an unwarranted attack on conventional or tabloid reporting.  Rather, it’s goal is intended to stir public media awareness, allowing readers to examine materials transmitted and absorbed.  When we can isolate and categorize media substance, then we capably decide what is factual journalism and what’s fiction.“  

The writing focuses on the responsibility media has in today’s society.  Too frequently, the accuracy, reliability and validity of media stories is questioned.  As noted in the introduction, “what is the public to believe, and what guidelines are available to weigh what is or is not true?  Solid, factual reporting is freely mixed with opinions.” It goes on to say that ”clearly the book is not designed as an unwarranted attack on conventional or tabloid reporting.  Rather, it’s goal is intended to stir public media awareness, allowing readers to examine materials transmitted and absorbed.  When we can isolate and categorize media substance, then we capably decide what is factual journalism and what’s fiction.“

About the Author

Richard L. Sartore studied, evaluated, and applied data, generated by a hugely diverse media system to his professional life experiences. The striking dilemma for media is how best to fairly separate truthful from deceptive reporting in an era of extremely rapid technological change. This is further accentuated by a “media culture” where intensity vies for posture, despite dubious accounts containing sporadic facts. Mr. Sartore places media exposure in perspective by transmitting an intelligible understanding of tabloid and mainstream reporting. Earning a BA and three MS degrees from the SUNY at Albany and New Paltz, he has worked on different levels of education as a teacher, counselor and administrator. Mr. Sartore, a movie screenwriter, has also produced poems, articles and seven nationwide books. Presently, Mr. Sartore is a full-time writer in Clifton Park, New York.