Killing the Messenger

100 Years of Media Criticism

By: Tom Goldstein (Editor)

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Hardcover | 10 April 2007 | Edition Number 2

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Killing the Messenger has long been a popular resource for readers eager to experience the best media criticism of the past century. Selections are chosen from magazines, journals, official reports, public speeches, and books that have been long out of print and cover a range of issues: the inadequacy of the press to police themselves, the importance of ethics and training, the problem of bias and sensationalism, and the threat of censorship.

Pieces by Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis, Joseph Pulitzer, Upton Sinclair, Spiro Agnew, George Seldes, and John Hersey, among others, are now joined by A. J. Liebling's early warning of the dangers of media consolidation, Will Irwin's analysis of journalism's growing power and pervasiveness, Daniel P. Moynihan's look at the changing relationship between the press and the presidency in 1971, Robert Darnton's essay on creative license, and Leo C. Rosten's statistical survey of the sociological makeup of newspaper correspondents in 1930s Washington and the effect of a journalist's "psychology" on the character of his reporting.

Killing the Messenger serves as a valuable reminder that criticizing the press is an old and invaluable tradition in our country and that many of today's issues have their roots in these fascinating and provocative examples of early criticism.

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Preface	p. ix
Reporting on Public and Private Matters	p. 1
The Right to Privacy	p. 3
Editorials from the Emporia Gazette, 1901-1921	p. 18
The Press and the Individual	p. 22
The Power of the Press and How to Curb It	p. 43
The American Newspaper: A Study of Journalism in Relation to the Public	p. 45
Selection from The Brass Check	p. 62
Selection from the "Report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press	p. 79
The End of Free Lunch	p. 93
Journalists and Their Biases-Conscious or Not?	p. 101
The Man with the Muckrake	p. 105
Speeches on the Media	p. 112
The Presidency and the Press	p. 131
A Test of the News	p. 154
Telling Stories: Facts, Truth, and the News	p. 173
Writing News and Telling Stories	p. 175
Newspapers and the Truth	p. 198
The Legend on the License	p. 213
Making the Press Professional	p. 233
Selections from the College of Journalism	p. 235
The Social Composition of Washington Correspondents	p. 245
The Role of the Mass Media in Reporting of News about Minorities	p. 253
Index	p. 279
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