JOURN 2011st Edition Lecture 5Outline of Last Lecture I. Origins of JournalismII. Pre-1600 PoliticsIII. Media Culture of the 1700sOutline of Current Lecture I. Guest Speaker (Prof. Baughman)Current LectureI. Professor Baughman a. Teaches the history of media in the Journalism schoolII. Journalism can be interestinga. Smarter mass communicatorb. Smarter consumers of info.III. Is American journalism becoming more partisan?a. Part of it vs. a recorder of itIV. We are going to want the facts eventually when politics begin to directly affect usa. Who are you going to listen to?i. Someone who never leaves their studio or someone who died in actionV. A lot of people don’t trust the messenger anymore a. No objective reality anymore b. People want something they can believeVI. 19th century journalisma. More objective neutralism was more accepting in the 20th centuryb. Manufacture/ color the facts is what gives journalism it’s powerVII. 1820 campaigna. Jackson vs. Adamsi. Ripped on Jackson’s wifeii. Claimed to violate privacyiii. No middle groundiv. Partisan journalism (exist in small towns in the 19th century)v. Hard to get the truth in one placeb. Cleveland ElectionVIII. Research suggests when free white men could vote 80% people were much more interested in votinga. Just because the papers were partisan, it caused people to be partisanThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.IX. Indirect Subsidies (19th century)a. Government hires a speech writer while being a reporterb. Reporters and editors were getting subsidies X. 19th Centurya. Parties were tied to newspapersb. William Bleyer - we need men and women who are separated from party because he found objective information was necessaryi. He created many journalism programsc. Jerry Baldasty – wrote a book (graduate of UW-Madison)i. Defended party pressii. Encouraged votes to voteiii. Votes were over 80% in 1856iv. At the end of the 19th century it changed1. Dishearten voters by making all candidates look bad (so why vote?) v. Why did party press go away?1. Newspaper companies couldn’t cover the costs of paper, technology and staff2. Got less political (clothes, sports, etc.)3. By appealing to both parties, companies could market product to a bigger crowd4. Advertising is another reason to appeal to both sidesa. Department stores asked journalists to be less partisan5. Not every paper changed over night (away from partisan)a. i.e. The Los Angeles TimesXI. 1950-60 Strove to be neutrala. What they said vs. interpretiveb. Consensus on foreign policiesc. Rivalry with Soviet Union lead people to ease up on the reporting because it was a life or death situationi. Kennedy didn’t make the front page because the UN had a huge meeting (about the cold war)XII. Unstated reason the press has less respect for the political classa. More snipping as the reporters were unbiased which lead people to make their own opinionsb. It’s “just” running for president – the stakes aren’t so high anymore (no world issues)XIII. Trust in the news media was under mined through scandals in the pasta. You had to get a newspaper back then because the radio didn’t cover muchi. Then they started defending themselves on the radioXIV. People didn’t feel they had to read local newspapers a. People had the webXV. We as a people are not partisana. The media is appealing to the true believersXVI. Fox News - 1.79milliona. NBC – 8 million viewersXVII. Go to websites that take news
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