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The Responsible Reporter

Journalism in the Information Age

By: Bruce J. Evensen

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The Responsible Reporter

Journalism in the Information Age

By: Bruce J. Evensen

The book is designed as an introductory text for journalism courses but would also be useful for related classes such as magazine and feature writing, principles of journalism, and news editing."--Jacket.

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Peter Lang

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1433103508

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When Dempsey Fought Tunney

Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age

By: Bruce J. Evensen

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When Dempsey Fought Tunney

Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age

By: Bruce J. Evensen

An anthology of 31 essays by the philosophically gifted selected by the editors as historically significant to the "post" in postmodernism, exhibiting the shift away from documentation and interpretation to an exploration of significance. The collection begins with Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes, traveling into 19th century social theory with Marx and Nietzsche, the challenges to those theories presented by Dewey and Kuhn, and the deconstruction of modernity with Foucault, Derrida, and Cornel West. In the final section, Habermas and Benhabib (among others) respond to postmodernism, taking us into the post postmodern contexts of the future. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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236

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870499181

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9780870499180

Journalism and the American Experience

By: Bruce J. Evensen

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Journalism and the American Experience

By: Bruce J. Evensen

Journalism and the American Experience offers a comprehensive examination of the critical role journalism has played in the struggle over America’s democratic institutions and culture. Journalism is central to the story of the nation’s founding and has continued to influence and shape debates over public policy, American exceptionalism, and the meaning and significance of the United States in world history. Placed at the intersection of American Studies and Communications scholarship, this book provides an essential introduction to journalism’s curious and conflicted co-existence with the American democratic experiment.

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Routledge

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135133624X

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God's Man for the Gilded Age

D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism

By: Bruce J. Evensen

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God's Man for the Gilded Age

D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism

By: Bruce J. Evensen

At his death on the eve of the 20th century, D.L. Moody was widely recognized as one of the most beloved and important of men in 19th-century America. A Chicago shoe salesman with a fourth grade education, Moody rose from obscurity to become God's man for the Gilded Age. He was the Billy Graham of his day--indeed it could be said that Moody invented the system of evangelism that Graham inherited and perfected. Bruce J. Evensen focuses on the pivotal years during which Moody established his reputation on both sides of the Atlantic through a series of highly popular and publicized campaigns. In four short years Moody forged the bond between revivalism and the mass media that persists to this day. Beginning in Britain in 1873 and extending across America's urban landscape, first in Brooklyn and then in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Boston, Moody used the power of prayer and publicity to stage citywide crusades that became civic spectacles. Modern newspapers, in the grip of economic depression, needed a story to stimulate circulation and found it in Moody's momentous mission. The evangelist and the press used one another in creating a sense of civic excitement that manufactured the largest crowds in municipal history. Critics claimed this machinery of revival was man-made. Moody's view was that he'd rather advertise than preach to empty pews. He brought a businessman's common sense to revival work and became, much against his will, a celebrity evangelist. The press in city after city made him the star of the show and helped transform his religious stage into a communal entertainment of unprecedented proportions. In chronicling Moody's use of the press and their use of him, Evensen sheds new light on a crucial chapter in the history of evangelicalism and demonstrates how popular religion helped form our modern media culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0190289988

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The Responsible Reporter

Journalism in the Information Age

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Truman, Palestine, and the Press

Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War

By: Bruce Evensen

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Truman, Palestine, and the Press

Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War

By: Bruce Evensen

In this absorbing book, Bruce J. Evensen analyzes the role of the mass media, public opinion, and the Zionists in the evolution of America's Palestine policy during the Truman administration. Taking issue with recent revisionist historians who argue that Truman had little difficulty manipulating public opinion, Evensen claims that the press and an aroused public opinion successfully frustrated the President's course on Palestine and elicited his support of the United Nations' partition of Jewish and Arab states and Truman's early recognition of Israel. Evensen emphasizes the development of a conventional wisdom that placed the Middle East at the center of U.S. strategic planning and saw limiting Soviet penetration as a primary goal. Within this context, he shows a divided Truman administration, which was uncertain how to act on the Jewish state. Reluctantly, the administration initially supported the UN's vote to partition the region; then, as Palestine erupted into violence, it attempted to abandon this decision. Interpreting the President's action as a gutless appeasement of the Arabs and an indication of his fear of the Soviets, the media, reflecting the public's Cold War fears, confronted the administration's policy in the Middle East and frustrated the President's effort to abandon the partition scheme. The media's role in reflecting and shaping competing visions of reality, which became the conventional wisdom of policy making, is a key part of this study.

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0313277737

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God's Man for the Gilded Age

D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism

By: Bruce J. Evensen

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D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism

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At his death on the eve of the 20th century, D.L. Moody was recognized as one of the most beloved and important of men in 19th-century America. Bruce J. Evensen focuses on the pivotal years during which Moody established his reputation on both sides of the Atlantic.

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When Dempsey Fought Tunney

Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age

By: Bruce J. Evensen

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Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age

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