| Description |
xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. Reporting on public and private matters: Right to privacy / Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren -- Editorials from the Emporia Gazette / William Allen White -- Press and the individual / George Seldes -- 2. Journalists and their biases: Man with the muckrake / Theodore Roosevelt -- Speeches on the media / Spiro Agnew -- A test of the news / Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz -- National security and the Bay of Pigs invasion / Clifton Daniel -- 3. Power and limitations of the press: American newspaper / Will Irwin -- Selection from The brass check / Upton Sinclair -- Challenge to the press / Carl Ackerman -- Selection from the report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press / Robert Maynard Hutchins -- 4. Making reporters better: Selection from the College of Journalism / Joseph Pulitzer -- Role of the mass media in reporting of news about minorities / Commission on Civil Disorders -- 5. News and reality: Newspapers and the truth / Frederick Lewis Allen -- Legend on the license / John Hersey. |
| Subject |
Press -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Press. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Journalism -- Objectivity -- United States -- History.
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Journalism -- Objectivity. |
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Press -- United States -- Influence -- History.
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Privacy, Right of -- United States -- History.
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Privacy, Right of. |
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Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History.
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Reporters and reporting. |
| Added Author |
Goldstein, Tom.
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| ISBN |
0231066023 alkaline paper |
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9780231066020 alkaline paper |
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