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Press Critics Are the Fifth Estate
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Media Watchdogs in America
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Artikel-Nr:
9780275999100
Veröffentl:
2008
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
30.06.2008
Seiten:
208
Autor:
Arthur Hayes
Gewicht:
484 g
Format:
240x161x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Arthur S. Hayes is Associate Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is former director of the graduate journalism program at Quinnipiac University, from which he took a JD. A journalist for 24 years, he worked for the Wall Street Journal, American Lawyer, and the National Law Journal.
Robust, uninhibited, provocative, and even scurrilous criticism of corporate media by the Fifth Estate-composed of private citizens and watchdog and partisan groups of all stripes-is vital to the functioning of the American democratic process. Hayes reviews the historical development of press criticism since the 1880s in each of ten categories: muckrakers, journalism reviews, columnists and authors, television press critics, press councils, advocacy groups, scholars, ombudsmen, bloggers, and satirists. The author provides nine case studies of recent press criticism campaigns that have, though widely vilified as uncivil or marginalized as kooky, contributed significantly to checking the pretensions of corporate media to an unwholesome monopoly on journalistic truth.
Current events and history both show that independent, self-appointed, and often caustic and partisan critics of the corporate press are essential to the functioning of American democracy.
1. Introduction2. Reed Irvines AIM: Barking at the Liberal Media3. Let a Thousand Bloggers Swarm4. Ben H. Bagdikian: Ahead of the Curve5. The Washington News Council: Third-Party Intervention6. FAIR: Press Criticism from a Progressive Think Tank7. Brill's Content: An Inside-the-Sausage-Factory Look at Media for People Who Eat Sausages, Not Those Who Make Them.8. Public Journalism: Press Criticism as an Ongoing Experiment9. Press Criticism as a Laughing Matter10. It Takes a Watchdog and a Village: News Media Accountability in Seven Days11. A Prescription for Effective Press Criticism in a Democracy ReferencesBooksArticlesLegal