Title
Partisan journalism [electronic resource] : a history of media bias in the United States / Jim A. Kuypers.
ISBN
9781442225947 electronic book
9781442225930
Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages)
Call Number
PN4888.O25 .K84 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.230973
Summary
"In Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States Jim A. Kuypers guides readers on a journey through American journalistic history, focusing on the warring notions of objectivity and partisanship. Kuypers shows how the American journalistic tradition grew from partisan roots and, with only a brief period of objectivity in between, has returned to those roots today. Kuypers begins with an overview of newspapers during Colonial times, explaining how those papers openly operated in an expressly partisan way; he then moves through the Jacksonian era's expansion of both the press and its partisan nature. After detailing the role of the press during the War Between the States, Kuypers demonstrates that it was the telegraph, not professional sentiment, that kicked off the movement toward objective news reporting. The conflict between partisanship and professionalization/objectivity continued through the muckraking years and through World War II, with newspapers in the 1950s often being objective in their reporting even as their editorials leaned to the right. This changed rapidly in the 1960s when newspaper editorials shifted from right to left, and progressive advocacy began to slowly erode objective content. Kuypers follows this trend through the early 1980s, and then turns his attention to demonstrating how new communication technologies have changed the very nature of news writing and delivery. In the final chapters covering the Bush and Obama presidencies, he traces the growth of the progressive and partisan nature of the mainstream news, while at the same time explores the rapid rise of alternative news sources, some partisan, some objective, that are challenging the dominance of the mainstream press." -- Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Introduction
The rise of a partisan press: news was not always "news"
Profits, partisanship, and a war: the "revolution in journalism"
A golden age of objective journalism?
Three presidents and a war
Beyond Nixon: growth of the partisan press
Pushing their polls
The rise of the alternate news media in radio and internet
Journalistic values and biased reporting
The Clinton manipulation and a declining press
Bush and election 2000: we spin, you figure it out
Obama 2008 and the contemporary establishment news media
The 2010 and 2012 elections.
