JOURN 3000 1st Edition Lecture 27Outline of Last Lecture I. News and public affairs programsII. Media criticism III. Pentagon papers Outline of Current LectureI. Underground PressCurrent LectureUnderground Press I.F. Stone’s Weekly Began in 1953 by I.F. StoneStone anti-McCarthyism; anti-war; pro-privacy rightsInvestigative-based journalism (government records) Highly influential with other journalists Village Voice Began in 1955 by Daniel Wolf and Norman Mailer (writers) and Edward Fancher (psychologist) Attracted top writers of the dayBroke the four-letter word barrier Interest in arts and books Anti-establishment voice Question institutions; anti-war; liberationThese 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. Printed cheaply by offset, mimeograph Uninhibited in graphic design, unrestricted in viewpoint, unprofitable‘Ethnic Press’ Black press – division between older and more radical press Chicago Defender leading older African-American paper Radical black press took up the cause of black power and black revolution Latino press – arose in the 1960s out of progressive and labor politics Latino audiences become a target of the mainstream press Major papers publish Spanish language sections in late 1970sNew or Literary Journalism Practiced by the likes of Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer Appeared in Esquire, New York, TheNew Yorker,Village Voice Focused on voice, literary techniques Light on attribution Narrate dialogue and what people are thinking Get inside issues and events, not just surface A critique of mainstream, objective journalism Hunter S. Thompson and Gonzo Journalism “There is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”Impact of Alternative Journalism Mainstream journalists have a love, hate relationship with alternative journalism Alternative journalism’s coverage largely ignored Mainstream journalism adapts narrative
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