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Informationen zum Autor G éraldine Muhlmann is Professor of Political Science, Université Paris - IX. Klappentext In this new important book, Graldine 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 concern to resist dominant representations and give voice to alternative views, on the other.She illustrates her account with a wide range of case studies, from Sverine, who covered the trial of Dreyfus in late nineteenth-century France, to the great Vietnam War reporters, Seymour M. Hersh and Michael Herr. In between are fascinating new readings of famous figures like George Orwell and Norman Mailer as well as some less well-known writers, such as the great American muckraker, Lincoln Steffens, and the French crusading journalist, Albert Londres.This historical and comparative account of the rise of modern journalism will be an ideal text for courses in journalism, political communication and media history. Written by an author who believes that journalism is crucial to our modern democracies and that it deserves to be studied with knowledge and care, the book raises serious questions about the role of the reporter and about the sorts of journalism that are possible in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung This historical and comparative account of the rise of modern journalism will be an ideal text for courses in journalism, political communication and media history. Written by an author who believes that journalism is crucial to our modern democracies. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. INTRODUCTION, 1. CHAPTER 1 / Unifying and decentring in modern journalism. 1. Unifying journalisms: the triumph of the witness-ambassador. 'Facts' acceptable to all, The truth is visible, The figure of the witness-ambassador,. 2. Journalisms that decentre: acts of daring, difficulties and pitfalls. The dilemma of the decentring journalist, Making us see otherness and connecting it to us,. CHAPTER 2 / An archetype of the witness-ambassador: Séverine, reporter at the trial of Captain Dreyfus (La Fronde, 6 August-15 September 1899). 1. The truth of the senses. The 'witness' against the 'rhetoricians', A radical sensualism,. 2. The body of the reporter. Woman-as-the-people, The heritage of Jules Vallés,. 3. Unifying by orchestrating a conflict. CHAPTER 3 / Unifying through a test: Nelly Bly, Albert Londres and Edward R. Murrow. 1. Nelly Bly or the test of the hidden. Stunt journalism, Making us see what is hidden and making us see ourselves, 'We' and 'the others',. 2. Albert Londres or the test of strangeness. The gaze as emergence of the strange, From 'I don't understand' to '"it" makes an appeal to us', Au Bagne (1923),. 3. Edward R Morrow or the test of the usurpation of the centre. 'See it now' versus McCarthyism: 'Americanness' at stake, 'Un-American': the situation reversed, Exposure to the public,. CHAPTER 4 / The limitations of the position of witness-ambassador: the case of Lincoln Steffens. 1. The ease of the recourse to 'I saw'. 2. The itinerary of a Muckraker in crisis. The Muckrakers, Lincoln Steffens: from 'the facts' to 'the system', The public, a prison,. 3. Saying good-bye to the witness-ambassador?. CHAPTER 5 / The difficulties of decentrement: the New Journalism and the early years of Libération. 1. The New Journalism and the temptation of ubiquity. A journalism in the first person, The 'chameleon' journalism of Tom Wolfe and its am...
