THE POLITICAL CARTOON AS EDUCATIONALIST JOURNALISM
| Autor: | Mark Andrew Hampton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Journalism Studies. 14:681-697 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9699 1461-670X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1461670x.2013.810905 |
| Popis: | This article examines David Low's depiction of unemployment in his cartoons during the interwar period, as a case study of the political cartoon as journalism. In doing so, it highlights the instability of journalism as a genre or, put more positively, the self-conscious blurring of generic forms. Even as the word “journalist” shed its mid-nineteenth-century opprobrium, late nineteenth-century voices had argued over the competing claims of reporters, leader-writers, and proprietors to the title of “journalist” (Hampton 2005). Low, while claiming his caricature as “art”, simultaneously asserted his identity as a journalist and the status of caricature as journalism. This articulation constituted, among other things, a response to contemporary debates about the New Journalism. In an era in which cultural traditionalists and leftist political writers both lamented what they saw as the debasement of public discourse through a popular journalism that was incapable of grappling with complexity, and in which, th... |
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