Discovering the news

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. - Publisher.

First sentence: BY BIRTH, education, and marriage, James Fenimore Cooper was an American aristocrat.

Year

1978

Language

English

Publisher

Basic Books

Editions

3

Pages

240

ISBN

9780465016662

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