What the Hacks Say: The Ideological Prism of US Journalism Texts

Authors

Bonnie Brennen, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

8 p.

Publication Date

4-2000

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Source Publication

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism

Source ISSN

1741-3001

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1177/146488490000100112

Abstract

A review of United States journalism textbooks, published during the 1980s and 1990s, suggests that authors focus on essential new information and highlight a cutting edge understanding of new technologies, visual literacy, and/or cultural diversity in an effort to justify publishing new books on the practice of journalism. This review also suggests that while the vast majority of these texts clearly cover the field in a competent and thorough manner, there is a considerable amount of overlapping, repetitive information and that all of these books address the practice of journalism from an identical ideological perspective.

Comments

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 2000): 106-113. DOI.

Bonnie Brennen was affiliated with the University of Missouri at Columbia at the time of publication.

Recommended Citation

Brennen, Bonnie, "What the Hacks Say: The Ideological Prism of US Journalism Texts" (2000). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 161.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/161