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What The Hacks Say: The Ideological Prism Of Us Journalism Texts, Bonnie Brennen
What The Hacks Say: The Ideological Prism Of Us Journalism Texts, Bonnie Brennen
Bonnie Brennen
A review of United States journalism textbooks, published during the 1980s and 1990s, suggests that authors focus on essential new information and highlight a cutting edge understanding of new technologies, visual literacy, and/or cultural diversity in an effort to justify publishing new books on the practice of journalism. This review also suggests that while the vast majority of these texts clearly cover the field in a competent and thorough manner, there is a considerable amount of overlapping, repetitive information and that all of these books address the practice of journalism from an identical ideological perspective.
Sweat Not Melodrama: Reading The Structure Of Feeling In All The President’S Men, Bonnie Brennen
Sweat Not Melodrama: Reading The Structure Of Feeling In All The President’S Men, Bonnie Brennen
Bonnie Brennen
Thirty years after the initial break-in, Watergate holds a mythic status within the history of American journalism. Whether individuals consider Watergate the beginning of modern investigative journalism or maintain that The Washington Post’s reportage helped destroy the legitimacy of the American political process, the press’s role in this political scandal continues to inspire journalists and provide justification for First Amendment protection of the press. Quite apart from the actual experience of Watergate, this essay suggests that the most famous chronicle of this political scandal, All the President’s Men, codifies an ideology of journalism which has framed an understanding of the …