This book is brilliant。 I have been concerned for some time now about the rise of disinformation， especially from right wing news outlets like Fox News， OANN， Newsmax， and Breitbart。 There truly is a difference between reality based journalism which has been the backbone of this nation for most of it’s life and Russian-like propaganda which has been flooding cable news and the internet for some time now。 In this book Jonathan Rauch brilliantly develops the concept of the constitution of knowledg This book is brilliant。 I have been concerned for some time now about the rise of disinformation， especially from right wing news outlets like Fox News， OANN， Newsmax， and Breitbart。 There truly is a difference between reality based journalism which has been the backbone of this nation for most of it’s life and Russian-like propaganda which has been flooding cable news and the internet for some time now。 In this book Jonathan Rauch brilliantly develops the concept of the constitution of knowledge as a way of helping us understand the values that should accompany good journalism and the tragic consequences that follow when those values are ignored。 I’m sharing his definition below of the Constitution of Knowledge because it is so concise and does such a good job of summarizing the focus of the book。 I cannot recommend this book highly enough。The Constitution of knowledge: A Defense of the Truth“Our conversations are mediated through institutions like journals and newspapers and social-media platforms; and they rely on a dense network of norms and rules， like truthfulness and fact-checking; and they depend on the expertise of professionals， like peer reviewers and editors—and the entire system rests on a foundation of values: a shared understanding that there are right and wrong ways to make knowledge。 Those values and rules and institutions do for knowledge what the U。S。 Constitution does for politics: they create a governing structure， forcing social contestation onto peaceful and productive pathways。 And so I call them， The constitution of knowledge。”—Jonathan Rauch 。。。more