Power of the Press : The Birth of American Political Reporting.
Title:
Power of the Press : The Birth of American Political Reporting.
Author:
Leonard, Thomas C.
ISBN:
9781601295903
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: The Press Vernacular and American Politics -- I. New Practices and New Ideals of the Eighteenth-Century Press -- 1. "The Wicked Printer" -- 2. News for a Revolution -- TOWARDS THE 19TH, CENTURY -- II. Words and Pictures in a Democracy -- 3. "Unfeeling Accuracy" -- 4. Visual Thinking: The Tammany Tiger Loose -- TOWARDS THE 20TH CENTURY -- III. Paths to Muckraking -- 5. Reporting from the Bottom -- 6. The Provincial Scandal -- IV. Reporting for a Phantom Public -- 7. The Civics and Anti-Civics of Muckraking -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- For Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Focusing on journalism in the USA, this study traces the development of news as political commentary from the American Revolution through the 19th century, when newspapers first became aware of their role in a new democracy, to the emergence of "muck-raking" in the 20th century.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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