Date of Award

6-1926

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Communication

First Advisor

Jeremiah L. O'Sullivan

Second Advisor

John Danihy

Abstract

One of the outstanding characteristics of present day journalism is the absence of political influence on the press, which was so prevalent several decades past. It would be an exceedingly difficult matter to definitely point out a paper, which is really important and influential, as a party organ. They are of course, many large dailies which favor certain parties in general, but no important newspaper is guided al together in its whole editorial policy by politics. Politics has completely lost its former control of the press. One by one the party organs are vanishing and becoming obsolete or they are less vigorous in their denunciation and approbation than they were in the era of "personal journalism." In fact the amount of real political news, even at election is very small, and very little of it could be termed political agitation. Political news takes more the form of feature stories. Frequently the candidates' speeches are printed verbatim, but there is little attempt to direct the public to support a certain candidate. he issue and not the candidate is the guiding star for the editor of today.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to Fulfill the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, College of Journalism, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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