Date of Award

4-14-1924

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Communication

Abstract

Practically every newspaper before 1900 had been a law unto itself. Journalism was without a code of ethics or a system of self-restraint and self-respect. This is well shown by the fighting attitude of the early editor who left his newspaper office to visit a rival editor arid force his opinion upon him with physical force if necessary. Early journalism had no sure standards of either work or duty. Its intellectual landscapes were anonymous; its moral destination was confused. From that time the journalistic standards have continued to raise until today it is said that the ethics of journalism are higher than any other profession. But why should they not be higher when the newspaper and its editor stand as the most vital instrument in the business and social world today? In view of the fact that the standards of journalism have continued to raise, there are still some great weaknesses in modern journalism that must be remedied and some highly important problems of the present day for the press to solve.

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Marquette University College of Journalism Senior Thesis

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