My prayers for a new way to think about the so-called crisis over “trust” in the press have been answered thanks to media scholar Matthew Pressman’s erudite new history, On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News. Journalism has … (read more)
Month: September 2018
Book Excerpt—On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped The News (AEJMC History Division)
By Matthew Pressman (Harvard University Press, November 2018)
“We are living in a time of revolution,” Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler told a conference of his company’s executives in May 1969. “You can go right down … (read more)