James Carey: A Critical Reader

James Carey This page intentionally left blank James Carey A Critical Reader Eve Stryker Munson and Catherine A. Warren, editors University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 1997 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Chapter i originally appeared in American Communication Research: The Remembered History, Everette E. Dennis and Ellen Wartella, editors; reprinted by permission of Lea Publishers. Chapter 2 originally appeared in Journal of Communication, Spring 1980, 162-78; reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. Chapter 3 originally appeared in Information and Communications in Economics, Robert Babe, editor, 1994, 321-36; reprinted by permission of Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chapter 4 originally appeared in Journalism History i, no. i (Spring 1974): 3-5, 2,7; reprinted by permission of CSUN Foundation. Chapter 5 originally appeared in Journalism History 12, no. 2 (Summer 1985): 855-58; reprinted by permission of CSUN Foundation. Chapter 6 originally appeared in Sociological Review Monograph, no. 13, January 1969, 23-38; reprinted by permission of Blackwell Publishers. Chapter 7 originally appeared in Reading the News, Robert Karl Manoff and Michael Schudson, editors, 1986; copyright 1986 by James W. Carey. Chapter 8 reprinted with permission of the Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, from Crucible of Liberty: 200 Years of the Bill of Rights, Raymond Arsenault, editor; copyright 1991 by the Free Press. Chapter 9 originally appeared in Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent, Theodore Glasser and Charles Salmon, editors, 1995; reprinted by permission of the Guilford Press. Chapter 10 originally appeared in Journal of Communication 42, no. 2 (Spring 1992): 56-72; reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press in Third Avenue South, Suite 290, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data James Carey : a critical reader / Eve Stryker Munson and Catherine A. Warren, editors, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8166-2702-9 (hardcover alk. paper). — ISBN 0-8166-2703-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) i. Carey, James W. 2. Communication and culture. I. Munson, Eve Stryker. II. Warren, Catherine A. P92.5.C37J36 1997 302.2—dc2i 97-8082 The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Eve Stryker Munson and Catherine A. Warren ix PARTI Introduction / On the Origins of Media Studies (and Media Scholars) John Pauly 3 1 / The Chicago School and the History of Mass Communication Research 14 2 / The Roots of Modern Media Analysis: Lewis Mumford and Marshall McLuhan 34 3 / Communications and Economics 60 PART II Introduction / The Problem of Journalism History, 1996 Michael Schudson 79 4 I The Problem of Journalism History 86 5 / "Putting the World at Peril": A Conversation with James W. Carey 95 PART III Introduction / Famed Psychic's Head Explodes: James Carey on the Technology of Journalism Carolyn Marvin 119 6 / The Communications Revolution and the Professional Communicator 128 7 / The Dark Continent of American Journalism 144 v vi / Contents PART IV Introduction / "We'll Have That Conversation": Journalism and Democracy in the Thought of James W. Carey Jay Rosen