Law of Communications

Pember, Don R.; Kahn, Frank J.; Gillmor, Donald M.; Barron, Jerome A.; Nelson, Harold L.; Teeter, Dwight L.

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“…The likelihood that a victim of defamation or invasion of privacy will recover damages at trial has come to depend in considerable measure on whether or not he or she is to be regarded as a "public figure" (Prosser, 1984, chap. 20;Bender, 1984;Pember, 1972). In becoming a politician, novelist, or movie actress, one deliberately seeks the public spotlight and, accordingly, voluntarily accepts a degree of intrusion into one's private affairs.…”

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The Professionalization of Journalism: Impetus or Impediment to a “Watchdog” Press*

Osiel

1986

Sociological Inquiry

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How have recent efforts by American journalists to "professionalize" affected . their capacity to serve as "watchdog" over offcial misconduct? This article examines the organization, ideology, and legal status of American journalism with a view to answering that question. Past and present obstacles to the professionalization of news reporting are evaluated. The growth of professional consciousness and prerogatives has strengthened journalistic resources for critical scrutiny of public life. This conclusion casts doubts on sociology's prevailing view of professionalization as little more than status-seeking and self-aggrandizement. As critical journalism has increasingly come to depend on professionalizing ideology and professional organization, efforts to hamper critical journalism have increasingly taken the form of attacks on the professional autonomy of newsmen.

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Section: Constraints On Press Autonomy In the Law Of Defamation And Pmentioning

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The Professionalization of Journalism: Impetus or Impediment to a “Watchdog” Press*

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1986

Sociological Inquiry

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The Professionalization of Journalism: Impetus or Impediment to a “Watchdog” Press*

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