Posted on 06/18/2013 5:30:48 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
When I pointed out that Lippmann is widely considered the Father of Modern Journalism, I did of course overlook one thing. A rather large thing. As I pointed out then, Harvard has a monument to Walter Lippmann on it's campus, (Lippmann House, 1 Francis Ave, Cambridge, Middlesex, MA 02138) but what about what goes on inside this and other locations?
One of the items that I have had an extremely hard time locating is a book titled "A Test of the News", which Lippmann co-wrote with Charles Merz. The thought never really occurred to me until recently to go digging for it on college servers. Once I refined my searches it did not take long at all. As you can see here in this 2004 posting on the H-net:
I've scanned as image-PDF files both these works:Lippmann and Merz, _A Test of The News_. (Supplement to The New Republic, August 4, 1920).
Will Irwin, _The American Newspaper_. Collier's Magazine, January - July 1911.
Both are basically unavailable; out of copyright; and among those works most cited in History of Journalism books and courses. I thought they might be of use to some of you.
Unfortunately, his upload of "Test of the News" doesn't work, though for anybody interested, I did locate Irwin's work quite some time ago. But if you follow the source back, you will see that the H-net is a part of the history department at Michigan State University.(MSU)
Its no problem that his upload does not work, I found it in the Debs papers at Indiana State University. This doesn't surprise me either(Debs' papers on showcase/collection at a college), considering that Eugene V. Debs was an important socialist leader, but that's not the point of my current posting.
The direct link to the PDF is here. I should hope that people would consider downloading this. Additionally, I uploaded the PDF file to a page on archive.org. Hopefully it should always be available to people online now.
Alternatively, this writing could also be of interest to those of you who are avid readers of/about the Russian Revolution.
This is significant because there are some things that just are not quotable in the way that I normally do, they're cultural. These are actions that people just take, not really thinking about it.(or rather, they are thinking about it) This shows the mindset of university journalism departments, in regard to what they deem "credible". Walter Lippmann is a hero to many of the people running them.
and Walter Lippmann — every journalist in America. You want to know why journalism doesn't get it? You know why journalism isn't on top of it? Because they have read Walter Lippmann. He is almost as evil, if not more evil, than this guy.This guy is taught in every journalism class all throughout America as a good guy. A hero.
Thought you might be interested in this............
Although Lippmann wa a journalist, I think of him more as a commentator than a reporter. If journalism students want to study great reporters, they should look into Richard Harding Davis, the prolific journalist of the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, Walter Trohan of the Chicago Tribune or the war correspondent, author and radio personality Floyd Gibbons.
Thanks for all your work on rooting out these important points of history.
Thank you for your hard work in tracing material and posting it. When I was in college Walter Lippmann was still active and often quoted. He was considered a liberal for my taste but today would probably be a little conservative. I’ll try and download your material but still have only a dial-up.
Lippmann (Harvard 1909), a host a Wall Street figures and a certain future CIA figure negotiated on behalf of the US at the end of WWI.
Curious combination; one must keep in mind the financial oligarch’s control of academia in order to understand it.
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