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Press Critics Are the Fifth Estate Media Watchdogs in America
Arthur S. Hayes
ISBN: 0-275-99910-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99910-0
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2008
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Democracy and the News
Reviews:
  • Hayes (Fordham Univ.) provides a sophisticated analysis of relatively recent criticism of the press....Endnote documentation is extensive. Highly recommended. All readers, all levels.
    —Choice     12/1/2008
Description: Robust, uninhibited, provocative, and even scurrilous criticism of corporate media by the Fifth Estate—composed of private citizens and watchdog and partisan groups of all stripes—is vital to the functioning of the American democratic process. Hayes reviews the historical development of press criticism since the 1880s in each of ten categories: muckrakers, journalism reviews, columnists and authors, television press critics, press councils, advocacy groups, scholars, ombudsmen, bloggers, and satirists. The author provides nine case studies of recent press criticism campaigns that have, though widely vilified as uncivil or marginalized as kooky, contributed significantly to checking the pretensions of corporate media to an unwholesome monopoly on journalistic truth.

 Title Features:
Press Critics Are the Fifth Estate is the first serious book about the press to treat Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as important and effective watchdogs of corporate media. Hayes's other case studies include:
  • Ben Bagdikian vs. media conglomerates
  • bloggers vs. CBS, CNN, and the New York Times
  • Steve Brill and Brill's Content
  • Jeff Cohen and FAIR
  • Reed Irvine and Accuracy in Media
  • Carl Jensen and Project Censored
  • Project for Excellence in Journalism
  • Jay Rosen and Civic Journalism
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
    2. Reed Irvines AIM: Barking at the Liberal Media
    3. Let a Thousand Bloggers Swarm
    4. Ben H. Bagdikian: Ahead of the Curve
    5. The Washington News Council: Third-Party Intervention
    6. FAIR: Press Criticism from a Progressive Think Tank
    7. Brill's Content: An Inside-the-Sausage-Factory Look at Media for People Who Eat Sausages, Not Those Who Make Them.
    8. Public Journalism: Press Criticism as an Ongoing Experiment
    9. Press Criticism as a Laughing Matter
    10. It Takes a Watchdog and a Village: News Media Accountability in Seven Days
    11. A Prescription for Effective Press Criticism in a Democracy References
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About the Author: Arthur S. Hayes is Associate Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is former director of the graduate journalism program at Quinnipiac University, from which he took a JD. A journalist for 24 years, he worked for the Wall Street Journal, American Lawyer, and the National Law Journal.
PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Politics 2008.pdf
Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
Pop Culture Spring 2008.pdf
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