Economic Case for Moral Journalism Flashcards
remain free from
govt. financing
Adam smith wrote what in 1776?
-basic text of ?
answer to modern mercantilism: nations should set economic policy designed to ?
smith contended economics is ?
what guarantees best quality at lowest price ?
written at the same time as ? but NOT?
- An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nature
- capitalism
- increase amount of silver and gold in one nation at the expense of it in another (zero sum game)
- a win win situation and all nations could increase wealth if govt. got out of the way and let natural forces take over (Laissez Faire)
- invisible hand
- DOI/ intertwined
penny press: for news business to succeed economically all that was needed was ?
a buying public large enough to create a huge market for news and tech. to be able to feed the market
Bennet: New York Herald
- realized people would pay for info if?
- news pays ?
- what are hard to separate
- fresh and entertaining
- advertiser pay for access to people
- pol. , economic, philosophical reasons for free info
Most important influence of Marxism for journalists
- widespread sympathy for ? and concerns about social harms of ?
- Pulizter- predicted
- money corrupts
- working class/ unrestrained accumulation of capital
- muckracking trad.
- politics and free flow of info
Thing muckracking and yellow journalism shared
- both at height during
- overlapping
- misidentified by people who were ?
- 20th century
- memberships
- objects of muckrackers attention
Sinclair: Brass Check
news organization had become ? and were not concerned for ?
Liebling:
decline in ? and decline of a loss of interest in ?
-big business/ citizen s
same idea
-genuine competition between news/ ferreting out important stories
Bagdikian: the media monopoly
the idea of
conglomeration
hutchins commission: what model
-people’s
Social Resp.
right to know
who is going to do the insisting ? -journalists -professional -some only exist to help? examples - -news
themselves media critics those they like and hurt those they dont (media research center) (FAIR) -ombudsmen -news councils
