Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era

Editors: Robert Jensen and Amy Reynolds
Price: $22.00
Expected: Spring 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9802004-6-1
Printed on acid-free paper

Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era is collection of trenchant and gritty essays by critics of the news media from the early 1900s. The key issue, then as now, was the distortion of the truth by the forces of market capitalism. Authors include Charles Edward Russell, Moorfield Storey, Edward Alsworth Ross, Oswald Garrison Villard, William Brand, Donald Wilhelm, Roscoe C. E. Brown, anonymous editorial writers at The Public and The Nation, and others. Editors Robert Jensen and Amy Reynolds provide historical perspective in their extensive introduction.