Civic journalism is not about talk. It is about change. It's about practicing change. It's about hands-on experiments with new ways of doing journalism so that it better reflects reality as our readers know it. So that it captures a fuller percentage of the truths on a subject.
Civic journalism is based on two premises.
One is that fewer and fewer people are reading newspapers or watching television news. Today fewer than 30 percent do. Network TV viewership is plummeting. Numbers released earlier this week show that for the first time ever, network television's market share of sets in use was less than 50 percent of all viewers. That tells us something.