By 1920, one journalism critic noted, there were nearly a thousand ‘bureaus of propaganda’ in Washington modeled on the war experience. Figures circulated among journalists that 50 percent or 60 percent of stories even in The New York Times were inspired by press agents. The new Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia was churning out more graduates for the PR industry than for the newspaper business. The publicity agent, philosopher John Dewey wrote in 1929, ‘is perhaps the most significant symbol of our present social life’ (Dewey, 1930: 43; Schudson, 1978: l2l–59).11
News & Current Affairs: Schudson on Objectivity (via paulbradshaw)
Schudson is such an irredeemable liberal.
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