Why Democracies Need an Unlovable PressJournalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson. Focusing on the U. S. media but seeing them in a comparative context, Schudson brings his understanding of news as at once a story telling and fact centered practice to bear on a variety of controversies about what public