Knightfall; Knight Ridder and how the erosion of newspaper journalism is putting democracy at risk

 Merritt, a longtime reporter and editor, uses his former employer as a framework for analyzing the economic, technological, and cultural forces at work on "newspaper journalism," a set of techniques and ethics that can be carried out in any medium but without which, Merritt, argues, democracy cannot thrive. He differentiates newspaper journalism from "pseudojournalism" and other forms in that it arises from newspapers' traditionally deliberate