Provoking the press : (MORE) magazine and the crisis of confidence in American journalism / Kevin M. Lerner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lerner, Kevin M., 1977- author.

Series:

Journalism in perspective: continuities and disruptions

Journalism in perspective : continuities and disruptions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

More (N.Y.).

American periodicals--New York (State)--New York--History.

American periodicals.

Journalism--Periodicals--History.

Journalism.

Journalism--Periodicals.

History.

Press--United States--History--20th century.

Press.

United States.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 277 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2019]

Summary:

"(MORE): A Journalism Review was co-founded by J. Anthony Lukas, a star at the New York Times who felt that the rigors of daily journalism were stifling him and other journalists like him, and Richard Pollak, a former Newsweek media writer. From 1971 to 1978, they and their collaborators and successors produced a monthly magazine that addressed newsroom diversity, the relationship between the press and politicians, censorship, and other issues essential to ensuring the institution's vitality. In telling the story of (MORE) and its legacy, Kevin Lerner explores the power of criticism to reform and guide the institutions of the press that, in turn, influence public discourse"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A culture of criticism : the limitations of the American newsroom and the societal role of press criticism

Rosebud associates : the crisis of objectivity in American journalism and the founding of (MORE)

The marble admonition : chronicling the journalism of the early '70s and challenging the institutional press

The gathering of the gothamedia : the first A.J. Liebling Counter-convention and the coalescence of the intellectual elite of American journalism

Get me rewrite : (MORE) adjusts to the post-Watergate press

The Gadfly : how press critics and their targets interact : two case

Studies of (More) and the New York times

How the press became the media : more becomes a "media magazine"

Further(MORE) : the demise of (MORE), and its legacy for press criticism.

Notes:

Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rutgers University, 2014, titled Gadfly to the watchdogs : how the journalism review (MORE) goaded the mainstream press toward self-criticism in the 1970s.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lerner, Kevin M., 1977- author. Provoking the press

ISBN:

9780826221865

0826221866

OCLC:

1056780823