Teaching the Common Good [microform] : Journalism Textbooks' Embrace of Social Responsibility, 1891-1942 / Jane S. McConnell
- Bib ID:
- 5588428
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- McConnell, Jane S
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995
- 34 p.
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Because the Hutchins Commission's report, "A Free and Responsible Press," has served as a benchmark concerning social responsibility of the press, a study compared its ideas about press responsibility and the role of journalism with those in journalism textbooks. Twelve period textbooks were content analyzed in detail as were several books written by press members for general consumption. Results showed that textbooks published between 1891 and 1942 clearly reflected journalism's growing concern with society. But even as this concern shaped ideas of press responsibility and the role of journalism in society, textbooks continued to uphold the basic standards of news writing (9 of the 12 texts dealt with writing). The earliest textbooks reflected journalism's individualistic tradition by characterizing press responsibility as the commitment of journalists to their careers or their newspapers' success. By 1910, however, journalism educators turned their attention outward. Textbook authors promoted professionalism and increasingly recommended a college education for journalists to raise journalism's status. Textbooks of the 1920s revealed a growing interest in the role of journalism in society through simple libertarian descriptions of journalism's purpose in a democratic society. In 1923 the newly formed American Society of Newspaper Editors adopted canons which emphasized the journalist's support of freedom of speech and press. By the end of the decade, journalism was being likened to a public utility--both a private enterprise and a public service. By the 1940s, news writing textbooks were reflecting journalism educators' wholehearted embrace of social responsibility as a fundamental principle of journalism. (Includes 94 notes.) (TB)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (78th, Washington, DC, August 9-12, 1995).
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