Patricia L. Dooley

Taking Their Political Place

Journalists and the Making of an Occupation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Early in the 19th century the work of American newspaper journalists was intertwined with the work of politicians. Journalists were primarily printers and editors, and newspapers were largely political organs, funded and used by politicians for political reasons. As the 19th century progressed, not only journalists, but politicians, were involved in newspaper work. Dooley explores the transformation of journalism, examining how journalists established occupational boundaries separating their work from that of politicians. She focuses on how an occupational group that had been inseparable from party politics early in the 19th century grew to be seen by many in society as more distant and independent from parties by the end of the century and became accepted as the citizenry's primary provider of political news and editorial opinion. This study of how journalists established occupational boundaries will be of interest to scholars and researchers of journalism history, political communication, and the sociology of work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780275971038
• ISBN-10: 0275971031
• Artikelnr.: 21052161

Autorenporträt

Patricia L. Dooley

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations The Journalistic Occupation and Political Communication in
American History Journalistic Work as Occupation in Eighteenth-Century
America Discursive Construction of Journalists as Political Communicators
in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Prospectuses Discursive Construction of
Journalists as Political Communicators in Nineteenth-Century Libel
Courtrooms Discursive Construction of Journalistic Occupational Roles
During the Era of Good Feelings Conclusion and Implications of Historical
Study of the Journalistic Occupational Group Appendix Bibliography Index