A Watchman of the Nation: A Christian Perspective on the Theory, History and Practice of Journalism

When Pontius Pilate rhetorically asked, "What is truth?" he spoke not philosophically, but cynically. A career politician, Pilate's guiding principle was pragmatism, not truth. In our era, truth is again lightly dismissed-with facts, distinctions, and history casually reimagined to serve the speaker's purpose. Garry Moes approaches the journalist's calling as a responsibility to truth, understood Biblically as a light that dispels darkness. This worldview gives man what can be, at times, a ...