Discovering the news : a social history of American newspapers / Michael Schudson

By:

Schudson, Michael

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0465016693
9780465016693
9780465016662
0465016669

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Discovering the news.DDC classification:

071.3/ SCH

LOC classification:

PN4855 .S3 1978

Online resources:

Publisher description

Contents:

The ideal of objectivity -- The revolution in American journalism in the age of egalitarianism: the Penny Press -- Telling stories: journalism as a vocation after 1880 -- Stories and information: twos journalisms in the 1890s -- Objectivity becomes ideology: journalism after World War I -- Objectivity, news management, and the critical culture

Summary: This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective "news" was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century. Professor Schudson analyzes the shifts in reportorial style over the years and explains why the belief among journalists and readers alike that newspapers must be objective still lives on. - Publisher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-220) and index

This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective "news" was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century. Professor Schudson analyzes the shifts in reportorial style over the years and explains why the belief among journalists and readers alike that newspapers must be objective still lives on. - Publisher

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