Warp Speed

Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media Culture (by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, 1999)の中で論じられていること。

• 'A culture of allegation and assertion at the expense of an older culture of verification' (by David Halberstam)
• 'The Rise of Anonymous Sourcing'
• 'There Are No Gatekeepers Here'
• 'The Argument Culture'

Culture of verification の根拠として、1920年のLippmannの以下の言説を引用。
"Public as well as private reason depends on [the importance of having an accurate, reliable account of "events"]. Not what somebody says, not what somebody wishes were true, but what is so, constitutes the touchstone of sanity."