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Glasser, Theodore L.; Ettema, James S. – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1989
Examines how investigative journalists work within the unresolved tension between detached observation and active moral agency. Concludes that investigative journalism may oversee the reinforcement of dominant moral values, but may also preside over the definition and development, as well as the debasement and dissolution, of those values. (MS)
Descriptors: Journalism, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Media Research
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Parker, Thomas F., IV – Communication Education, 1987
An attorney for the plaintiffs in the "Smith vs. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama" case recounts his impressions of the trial, focusing on the nature of the press coverage. (NKA)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Court Judges