Killing the messenger : 100 years of media criticism / edited by Tom Goldstein.

Includes index.

1. Reporting on public and private matters: The right to privacy / Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren -- Editorials from the Emporia Gazette / William Allen White -- The press and the individual / George Seldes -- 2. Journalists and their biases: The man with the muckrake / Theodore Roosevelt -- Speeches on the media / Spiro Agnew -- A test of the news / Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz -- National security and the Bay of Pigs invasion / Clifton Daniel -- 3. The power and limitations of the press: The American newspaper / Will Irwin -- Selection from The brass check / Upton Sinclair -- The challenge to the press / Carl Ackerman -- Selection from the report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press / Robert Maynard Hutchins -- 4. Making reporters better: Selection from the College of Journalism / Joseph Pulitzer -- The role of the mass media in reporting of news about minorities / Commission on Civil Disorders -- 5. News and reality: Newspapers and the truth / Frederick Lewis Allen -- The legend on the license / John Hersey.