Manhattan Paper: The Press and New York Politics
Lord Macaulay said in 1828, The gallery in Parliament in which the reporters sit has become the fourth estate of the realm." Like-wise, New Yorkers tend so think of the city's press as an integral, albeit unofficial, component of the local political system, Expected to be vigilant against governmental malfeasance and corruption, reporters and editors take seriously their implicit role as critics of municipal politics and guardians of the public interest.
But under the scrutiny of New York 's journalistic establishments city politicians have engaged in precisely the sort of abuses of power and illegal activity which it has been the press's traditional duty to prevent or expose. With several notable exceptions, the press was too long unresponsive to the growing scandals, Why?
The Manhattan Institute convened a panel of eight distinguished political journalists to discuss city government and how the press fits—or should fit—into it. Chaired by Harvard University sociologist Nathan Glazer, the session developed into a searching critique of the relations among reporters, editors, and politicians in New York City
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