JOURN 3000 Quiz: HOJO_Notes_2nd_Test.doc
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The late 19th century: objectivity: focus towards objectivity, medias as business (penny press, privately owned, like retail business, the emergence of objective journalism, ny times set the standard. Objective journalism: ethic of objectivity, report the news, not to make or evaluate it, neutrality, balance, facts, political coverage, sayings and doings of public officials, summaries of debates (quotations); campaign dispatches (speeches, weather, size of crowd). 1950s: press v. joseph mccarthy journalists felt constrained and just summarized mccarthy"s charges and left it at that: objective v. interpretive, watergate brought home the limits of objective journalism, bob woodward and carl bernstein, the washington post, was not covered by the white house press corps, objective v. investigative, objective v. investigative, objective. Early magazine timeline: 1700, first english magazine by daniel defoe, 1704, first american magazine by andrew bradford, 1741, diff. from newspapers, solely commentary, 1800s, upper class readers, expensive to print and mail, however, rapid magazine growth occurred.
