TY - JOUR
T1 - Partisan journalism and the rise of the republican party in South Carolina, 1959-1962
AU - Bedingfield, Sid
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - When political journalist William D. Workman, Jr., resigned from Charleston's News and Courier and announced plans to run for the U.S. Senate in 1962, he said it would be "unethical" to combine "objective reporting with partisan politics." Yet Workman's personal papers reveal that, for three years, he and editor Thomas R. Waring, Jr., had been working with Republican leaders to build a conservative party to challenge Deep South Democrats. Workman's story provides an example of how partisan activism survived in the twentieth-century American press, despite the rise of professional standards prohibiting political engagement.
AB - When political journalist William D. Workman, Jr., resigned from Charleston's News and Courier and announced plans to run for the U.S. Senate in 1962, he said it would be "unethical" to combine "objective reporting with partisan politics." Yet Workman's personal papers reveal that, for three years, he and editor Thomas R. Waring, Jr., had been working with Republican leaders to build a conservative party to challenge Deep South Democrats. Workman's story provides an example of how partisan activism survived in the twentieth-century American press, despite the rise of professional standards prohibiting political engagement.
KW - Partisanship
KW - Political journalism
KW - Professionalization of journalism
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U2 - 10.1177/1077699012468697
DO - 10.1177/1077699012468697
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878087170
SN - 1077-6990
VL - 90
SP - 5
EP - 22
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -