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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1989]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231917308
  • 9780231885188
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Reporting on Public and Private Matters -- The Right to Privacy -- Editorials from the Emporia Gazette -- The Press and the Individual -- 2. Journalist and their Biases -- The Man with the Muckrake -- Speeches on the Media -- A Test of the News -- National Security and the Bay of Pigs Invasion -- 3. The Power and Limitations of the Press -- The American Newspaper -- Selection from The Brass Check -- The Challenge to the Press -- Selection from the Report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press -- 4. Making Reporters Better -- Selection from The College of Journalism -- The Role of the Mass Media in Reporting of News About Minorities -- 5. News and Reality -- Newspapers and the Truth -- The Legend on the License -- Index
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231885188

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Reporting on Public and Private Matters -- The Right to Privacy -- Editorials from the Emporia Gazette -- The Press and the Individual -- 2. Journalist and their Biases -- The Man with the Muckrake -- Speeches on the Media -- A Test of the News -- National Security and the Bay of Pigs Invasion -- 3. The Power and Limitations of the Press -- The American Newspaper -- Selection from The Brass Check -- The Challenge to the Press -- Selection from the Report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press -- 4. Making Reporters Better -- Selection from The College of Journalism -- The Role of the Mass Media in Reporting of News About Minorities -- 5. News and Reality -- Newspapers and the Truth -- The Legend on the License -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)