The proletarian journalist: A critique of professionalism

Journal of Mass Media Ethics 1 (2):47 – 55 (1986)
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Abstract

Proletarian journalists are ?professionals?; in America's news factories. Their ?conversion downward?; took place over several ?long waves?; of capitalist development that linked commerce to ideology and legitimated marketplace practices. ?Independence,?; ?objectivity,?; and ?social responsibility?; emerged as ideological corollaries of commercial strategies deployed to stabilize marketplace crises and class conflicts within journalism

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American Journalism.Frank Luther Mott - 1942 - Science and Society 6 (3):292-295.

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