A Political History of Journalism

by Geraldine Muhlmann and Géraldine Muhlmann

Book Overview

In this new important book, Geraldine Muhlmann provides a comparative history of the rise of modern journalism, from the revolution of the late nineteenth century, with its new concern for facts, through to the present day. Her account is structured around the tension between what she calls the unifying and decentring tendencies in modern journalism - that is, the concern to give readers a truth that is acceptable to all, on the one hand, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745635741
• ISBN13: 9780745635743
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"