Summary of James O’Keefe's American Muckraker

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The printing press, the telegraph, and the internet have all changed the way we communicate. But the act of journalism has not changed much over the years.
#2 The press was supported in part by political parties in the 1800s, but with the emergence of papers like the New York Times, which still promises to report without fear or favor, this open partisanship began to fade.
#3 journalists were only as valuable and efficient as their ability to be self-directed, self-managed, and even self- rewarded. In the best of days, reporters were kept on a short leash by management.
#4 Until about 1950, the public received its news almost exclusively through print, radio, and cinema newsreels. Television was a cool medium that required more interaction from the audience.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie politique
• Politics

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669357698
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on James O’keefe's American Muckraker
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The printing press, the telegraph, and the internet have all changed the way we communicate. But the act of journalism has not changed much over the years.

#2

The press was supported in part by political parties in the 1800s, but with the emergence of papers like the New York Times, which still promises to report without fear or favor, this open partisanship began to fade.

#3

Journalists were only as valuable and efficient as their ability to be self-directed, self-managed, and even self- rewarded. In the best of days, reporters were kept on a short leash by management.

#4

Until about 1950, the public received its news almost exclusively through print, radio, and cinema newsreels. Television was a cool medium that required more interaction from the audience.

#5

The transition from hot to cool media was part of a great informational revolution that was taking place in the 1960s. Television was becoming more and more controllable by the executives of three New York-based networks, two of which were dominant.

#6

The 1970s saw the rise of a specialized class of responsible men who maintained their power throughout the decade. They were the anchormen and anchors of television news, who became nearly as powerful as the military and the government.

#7

The media became democratized, and people were able to record and share video of events on an industrial scale. This led to a media revolution that few took notice of. Hidden camera video, done responsibly, became the most honest medium of all.

#8

Talk radio allowed conservatives to voice their opinions, which they were often too afraid to do in traditional media.

#9

The internet, of course, was a major tool that helped Amplify the power of the hidden camera visual. But just as quickly, centralizing forces began to counter that influence.

#10

The internet and Big Tech were beginning to destroy the print journalism oligopoly.

#11

The New York Times and Washington Post, two of the most prominent newspapers in the country, have abandoned the advertisers’ historic model of reaching as many customers as possible. They now cater to the needs of a narrow audience of affluent ideologues.

#12

American life in the late twentieth century was trending toward increased anonymity. The popularity of private automobiles, automatic garage doors, and suburban homes without front porches left many Americans drowning in privacy.

#13

The 2016 election saw hundreds of people work without compensation to expose wrongdoing in their city halls, state houses, and federal centers.

#14

There has been a tension between access and autonomy in the media throughout the twentieth century. On one end of the spectrum, there were adversarial journalists who, given their lack of access, did not have a realistic understanding of what was happening on the inside of a given institution.

#15

The interview between a government source and a journalist is a contrived occurrence and is often phony and extremely cooperative. The relationship between reporter and source is mutually manipulative, but it is more likely to be the man in power who is manipulating the reporter.

#16

There was a lot of abysmal journalism during the Trump era. Some of it relied on anonymous sources, and there was little to no evidence to support many of the claims.

#17

The beat reporter is often stuck in a conundrum. She relies on the same sources for information, which forces her to sit on a perfectly newsworthy story that would embarrass the source she relies on.

#18

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president.