Thomas E. Patterson Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism. New York: Vintage, 2013. 256 pp.Thomas E. Patterson's new book, Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism, would be called slim (only 143 pages not including end matter), but it packs a wallop, succinctly making as many points as most nonfiction books do in 300+ pages. Patterson might be partially repeating himself from another book, but perhaps it is because he is more confident than ever and no one listened before.Perhaps without knowing it, he is calling for a revolution: journalists having substantial levels of expertise about what they write about, which will decrease factual errors, improve news judgment, increase the quality of sources used, and decrease journalists knowingly and uncritically passing along lies and misinformation from government (and corporate) officials (something that U.S. journalists were supposed to have learned through McCarthyism or Vietnam). Many Americans assume that U.S. journalists already are very knowledgeable, which is only one reason why they seemingly attribute all bad journalism to political (or other) bias rather than the simpler (and more obvious) answer: incompetence. Knowledge-based journalism also is not unprecedented in the United States or abroad, but merely rare. Patterson is not alone. Mitchell Stephens' new book, Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, argues for wisdom journalism, and this reviewer also has repeatedly called for higher academic/intellectual standards in U.S. journalism education programs.Patterson uses data to show that U.S. media audiences' preferences in, and opinions about, the news are closer to what he advocates than to what news organizations are delivering. And he dismisses concerns that knowledge-based news is more time-consuming and expensive to produce based on his quite logical deduction that highly knowledgeable reporters can work as quickly as less knowledgeable reporters. (Probably faster!)Patterson fatally misses the anti-intellectualism-caused reasons, which this reviewer has written about, why knowledge-based journalism has not happened before. To recite only the major reasons, (1) U.S. news executives feel psychologically threatened by employees who are more specialized, better educated, and/or more intelligent than they are; (2) U.S. news executives assume that specialized reporters are biased about their area(s) of expertise (as if ignorant people have no biases!); (3) U.S. news executives assume that specialized reporters (such as a business reporter with an MBA, or a medical reporter with an MD) are unavailable, won't stay long, and/or will be difficult to manage, or at the very least, difficult to edit (assuming lots of jargon!); (4) U.S. news executives know about the relatively very small audiences for all intellectual and/or political media; and (5) U. …