On the Media
February 04, 2006
“Journalism: A faith in decline?” by Terry Mattingly at GetReligion has some links to important and interesting articles on recent media history and theory. Mattingly asks, “Which journalistic religion is in decline? Is it the old faith of the American model of the press, with its creed of accuracy and balance, or the idealistic, advocacy faith of the “new journalism” that burst from the head of Woodstein during the holy days of the Watergate era? Have people lost faith in the new faith that said the old faith is out of date? Precisely who is in decline? Both? Neither?”
Recently on the BBC’s “In Our Time,” “Seventeenth-Century Print Culture” with Kevin Sharpe, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Keele; and Joad Raymond, Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia. Program notes: “In the advent of the Civil War, print was used as the ideological battleground by the competing forces of Crown and Parliament. What sorts of printed texts were being produced? How widespread was literacy and who were the new consumers of print? Did print affect social change? And what role did print play in the momentous English Civil War?”
From the Library of Congress: “A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books” – “In the century after Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type, books and other printed materials began to flourish, and in doing so, many artisans began to decorate such items with marvelous woodcuts. Three centuries after their publication, Lessing J. Rosenwald (the retired chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and Company) acquired many of these masterworks at a sale sponsored by their then owner, C.W. Dyson Perrins. Eventually, Rosenwald willed these works to the Library of Congress, and they have just recently created this online exhibit to complement a current exhibit in Washington, DC. In the introduction to the exhibit, visitors can read about Rosenwald and Perrins, and also learn a bit about how a woodcut is created. The exhibit itself is divided into one section that deals with works from the 15th century, and another that deals with the 16th century. Some of the highlights featured here include images from a 1506 commentary on the Passion of Christ as executed by the Swiss artist, Urs Graf. Another set of gems are the lovely woodcuts from Jacob Wolff’s 1501 edition of Aesop’s life and fables. [KMG]” –From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005.
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