Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism
Kevin M. Lerner, "Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism "
English | ISBN: 0826221866 | 2019 | 290 pages | PDF | 1462 KB
English | ISBN: 0826221866 | 2019 | 290 pages | PDF | 1462 KB
At the beginning of the 1970s, broadcast news and a few newspapers such as The New York Times wielded national influence in shaping public discourse, to a degree never before enjoyed by the news media. At the same time, however, attacks from political conservatives such as Vice President Spiro Agnew began to erode public trust in news institutions, even as a new breed of college-educated reporters were hitting their stride. This new wave of journalists, doing their best to cover the roiling culture wars of the day, grew increasingly frustrated by the limitations of traditional notions of objectivity in news writing and began to push back against convention, turning their eyes on the press itself.
Two of these new journalists, a Pulitzer Prize—winning, Harvard-educated
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