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Journal of Mass Media Ethics
Exploring Questions of Media Morality
Volume 1, 1986 - Issue 2
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The proletarian journalist: A critique of professionalism

Pages 47-55 | Published online: 24 Feb 2009
 

Abstract

Proletarian journalists are “professionals”; in America's news factories. Their “conversion downward”; took place over several “long waves”; of capitalist development that linked commerce to ideology and legitimated marketplace practices. “Independence,”; “objectivity,”; and “social responsibility”; emerged as ideological corollaries of commercial strategies deployed to stabilize marketplace crises and class conflicts within journalism.

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