Where do we go from here?

“Can the media in the United States, as well as media outlets throughout the world, continue to help provide a coherent, society-wide, fact-based framework to understand and debate the meaning of contemporary issues and events? Or, in this “post-factual” era, transfixed by the emergence of an energized social media, is the role of the journalist increasingly irrelevant? And if so, does it need to be reinvented?”