Discovering The News
Subtitle: a Social History of American Newspapers
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780786723089
Subjects: Journalism; History; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Ideal of Objectivity; 1. The Revolution in American Journalism in the Age of Egalitarianism: The Penny Press; The Revolution of the Penny Press; Explanations of the Revolution in Journalism; The Technological Argument; The Literacy Argument; The Natural History Argument; The Age of Egalitarianism and the Press; The Social Standing of the Penny Press; Conclusion; 2. Telling Stories: Journalism as a Vocation After 1880; Science and Literary Realism; Occupational Ideals of Journalists; 3. Stories and Information: Two Journalisms in the 1890s.; title: Journalism as Entertainment: Joseph Pulitzer and the New York WorldJournalism as Information: The Rise of the New York Times; 4. Objectivity Becomes Ideology: Journalism After World War I; Losing Faith in the Democratic Market Society; The Decline of ""Facts"" in Journalism; Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Press; 5. Objectivity, News Management, and the Critical Culture; Government and the Press: ""News Management""; The Rise of a Critical Culture; The Critique of Conventional Journalism-and Its Consequences; Notes; Index.