Following the crusaders and scandal-mongers of the Fourth Estate through more than a century of pop culture
Matthew C. Ehrlich is a professor of journalism at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Journalism in
the Movies. Joe Saltzman directs the Image of the Journalist in
Popular Culture digital history project. He is a professor of
journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
at the University of Southern California and author of Frank
Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film.
"A perceptive study of an enduring and tantalizing question: What
do they think of us? Ehrlich and Saltzman craft a persuasive,
sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious montage of the omnipresence
of journalists in popular culture. But the book does more than
that. The authors work also tells us a great deal about the
powerful and defining role of popular culture itself."
--Richard Reeves, author of President Kennedy: Profile of
Power
"Ultimately, anyone who studies media portrayals or public
perceptions of journalists would benefit greatly from reading this
book and incorporating it into their teaching and
research."--Journalism and Mass Communication Educator
"Authors Matthew C. Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman have done a
painstakingly thorough job of marshaling, assembling, organizing,
and setting down in print the vast amount of material that makes up
our popular culture's representation of journalism and the men and
women who commit it. . . . The subject matter holds plenty of
interest for readers drawn to the popular media, and that's a lot
of us; that's why it's cold the popular media."--The Santa Fe
New Mexican
"Authors Matthew Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman make a convincing case
that fictional journalists are both ubiquitous and significant in
pop culture-- in plays, movies, television, novels, short stories,
comic strips, graphic novels, video games, and so on... With scores
of examples and an extensive appendix of media sources, Heroes
and Scoundrels is a terrific resource for courses in mass
communication and society, contemporary issues in journalism,
journalism ethics, media history, and related
courses."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
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