With lies now so rampant on the Internet, television, and radio – with every printed page, moving image, recorded sound, and live event suffering, it seems, from what commentators have called “ truth decay” – we need to interrogate anew what responsibilities American society has to better govern itself, and whether our knowledge institutions and our media in particular might need more regulation and fresh philanthropic attention. Editors’ Note: Peter Kaufman argues that the 1965 Carnegie Commission that led to the creation of the U.S.’s public television and radio systems can be a model for a philanthropic intervention to address our current epistemic crisis.
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