Killing the Messenger : 100 Years of Media Criticism / Tom Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldstein, Tom, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A collection of articles from late 19th to the late 20th centuries that criticize the press and offer different perspectives on many of the issues that are still relevant to the press today: how the concentration of media ownership denies access to the public, how the media inadequately police themselves, how reporters could be better trained, how bias in reportage may be unavoidable, how the press sensationalizes on the one hand and censors itself on the other, and other issues.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Reporting on Public and Private Matters

The Right to Privacy / Warren, Samuel / Brandeis, Louis

Editorials from the Emporia Gazette / White, William Allen

The Press and the Individual / Seldes, George

2. Journalist and their Biases

The Man with the Muckrake / Roosevelt, Theodore

Speeches on the Media / Agnew, Spiro

A Test of the News / Lippmann, Walter / Merz, Charles

National Security and the Bay of Pigs Invasion / Daniel, Clifton

3. The Power and Limitations of the Press

The American Newspaper / Irwin, Will

Selection from The Brass Check / Sinclair, Upton

The Challenge to the Press / Ackermann, Carl

Selection from the Report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press / Hutchins, Robert Maynard

4. Making Reporters Better

Selection from The College of Journalism / Pulitzer, Joseph

The Role of the Mass Media in Reporting of News About Minorities / Commission on Civil Disorders

5. News and Reality

Newspapers and the Truth / Allen, Frederick Lewis

The Legend on the License / Hersey, John

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88518-0

OCLC:

49414646