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New PDF release: The Year That Defined American Journalism

By W. Joseph Campbell

ISBN-10: 0203959965

ISBN-13: 9780203959961

ISBN-10: 0415977037

ISBN-13: 9780415977036

The 12 months that outlined American Journalism explores the succession of exceptional and decisive moments in American journalism in the course of 1897--a 12 months of vital transition that helped redefine the career and form its smooth contours. This defining 12 months featured a momentous conflict of paradigms pitting the activism of William Randolph Hearst's participatory "journalism of motion" opposed to the indifferent, fact-based antithesis of activist journalism, as represented by means of Adolph Ochs of the recent York instances, and an eccentric scan in literary journalism pursued by way of Lincoln Steffens on the ny Commercial-Advertiser. answer of the three-sided conflict of paradigms may take years and end result finally within the ascendancy of the days' counter-activist version, which is still the defining common for mainstream American journalism. The yr That outlined American Journalism introduces the year-study technique to mass communications learn and enriches our figuring out of a pivotal second in media historical past.

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There are other candidates, including: 1798 and the promulgation of the Alien and Sedition Acts, under which ten journalists eventually were convicted;139 1833 and the emergence (disputed by some scholars) of innovative techniques associated with the penny press;140 1972 and the Washington Post’s disclosures about the Watergate scandal, a constitutional crisis that led to the resignation of President Richard M. 142 Each of those years was significant, even extraordinary, in the historiography of American journalism.

132 Schudson’s “two journalisms” construct not only draws sharper contrasts than are warranted, it ignores the Journal’s ascendancy as America’s most compelling and energetic newspaper and fails to identify the elaborate nature of the Journal’s activist paradigm. One of the few scholars who explicitly considered the implications of the Journal’s activism was Gerald Linderman in The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish-American War. ”133 As will be explored in Chapter 2, the “journalism of action” was far more complex than that characterization.

54 One dissident clergyman, the Rev. A. G. Rogers, suggested the ban was sought because Sunday newspapers had become more popular and entertaining than church-going. “If it comes to a contest for popular favor between the Sunday newspaper and the church, … the only way in which the church can come out on top is to offer the most inducements for a pleasant time,” he said. ”55 But the crying ban remained in force. 58 Parallels, Then and Now Yelling newsboys and the mild controversies they prompted long ago disappeared from urban America.

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