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The author's conclusions about the nature of policing and his discussion of the implications of proposals for reform of police, will generate better-informed deliberation in political and public decision-making and in the general study of sociological theory

Fact is a product of the communication practices of journalists. Journalists rarely have the resources or access to penetrate their sources' informational worlds to establish facts independently. Moreover, the norms of objectivity in journalism often preclude efforts to establish facts independent of sources' accounts. Therefore, journalists visualize the fact value of a story on the basis of a source's face value as an authoritative, normative witness to events. While television visuals offer a greater capacity for believability, the need for an orderly visual narrative leads to staged news events, retakes, reenactments, use of stock footage, and other fakes. These communication practices blur distinctions between fact, value, information, and knowledge and have literary properties. Like literary fiction, news requires the willing suspension of disbelief in order to have its knowledge accepted. This important literary character of news may be fading as the news institution breaks down into segmented markets and specialized information services.

Fact is a product of the communication practices of journalists. Journalists rarely have the resources or access to penetrate their sources' informational worlds to establish facts independently. Moreover, the norms of objectivity in journalism often preclude efforts to establish facts independent of sources' accounts. Therefore, journalists visualize the fact value of a story on the basis of a source's face value as an authoritative, normative witness to events. While TV visuals offer a greater capacity for believe ability, the need for an orderly visual narrative leads to staged news events, retakes, reenactments, use of stock footage, & other fakes. These communication practices blur distinctions between fact value information, & knowledge & have literary properties. Like literary fiction, news requires the willing suspension of disbelief to have its knowledge accepted. This important literary character of news may be fading as the news institution breaks down into segmented markets & specialized information services. 59 References. Adapted from the source document.

Insurers' perceptions and decisions about uncertainty ? with potential for windfall profits as well as catastrophic losses ? create crises in insurance availability and provoke new forms of inequality and exclusion. Hence, while the insurance industry is a central bulwark against uncertainty, insurers also play a key role in fostering it

The essays collected in Governing Modern Societies arose from a lecture series of the same name held at Green College, University of British Columbia, in 1997 and 1998.