Doing Public Journalism

The federal government (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, Environmental Protection Agency, etc.)

Environmentalists (Southwest Center for Biological Diversity)

County and local government (Catron County Commissioner, Reserve Mayor Harold Dykstra)

State government (New Mexico Senators Bingaman and Domenici)

Local citizens (i.e., clergymen, employees, community leaders)

Neutral Parties (New Mexico Center for Dispute Resolution)

One can see that there are not only multiple land use issues facing Catron Country, but also a host of diverse stakeholders among who common ground is sought. After the diverse interests of the stakeholders created chaos and a virtual standstill where action or resolution is concerned, the New Mexico Center for Dispute Resolution (NMCDR) was consulted as a means of finding common ground to sensibly tackle the diverse issues and challenges facing stakeholders. Dr. Mark Unverzagt, c

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lic” journalism, founded basically for the same reasons as the CCCG, because old methods accomplished little or nothing “The reporters and editors whose work is described in this book began to find themselves increasingly restless with a style of journalism that just didn’t seem to work. Many were veterans who had joined the newspaper business years or decades earlier, eager to serve the public interests and influence their towns, states, and nation for the better. Now they were faced with the fact that they hadn’t accomplished much for their efforts” (Charity 1). Before examining the new “public” journalism ideology and approach and how it may serve to help focus public opinion on the issues facing Catron County, we need to look at another book on the modern media’s limitations that help us understand why business-as-usual journalism is no longer effective. W. Lance Bennett, in News: The Politics of Illusion, argues that mass media information creates a three-way struggle for power for the control of information by the government, interest groups, and the public (the same three main groups involved in the Catron County issues). Bennett claims that the public is often accused of being uninformed of political and public issue
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