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Berry, David, and John Theobald, eds.  Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy<\/em>.  New York: Black Rose Books, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blanchard, Margaret A.  “Press Criticism and National Reform Movements: The Progressive Era and New Deal.” Journalism History<\/em> 5 (Summer 1978): 33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Lee.  The Reluctant Reformation: On Criticizing the Press in America<\/em>.  New York: McKay, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Pamela A.  “George Seldes and the Winter Soldier Brigade: The Press Criticism of In Fact<\/em>, 1940-1950.”  American Journalism<\/em> 6:2 (1989): 86-102. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada, Mark.  \u201cThe Critique of Journalism in Sister Carrie<\/em>.\u201d  American Literary Realism<\/em> 42:3 (Spring 2010): 227-242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coyle, Erin.  \u201cThe Moral Duty of Publicity: Louis Dembitz Brandeis\u2019 Crusades for Reform in the Press and Public Affairs, 1890-1916.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 35:3 (Fall 2009): 162-167.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coyle, Erin K.  \u201cE. L. Godkin\u2019s Criticism of the Penny Press: Antecedents to a Legal Right to Privacy.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 31:2 (Spring 2014): 262-282.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferr\u00e9, John P. \u201cThe Dubious Heritage of Media Ethics: Cause-and-Effect Criticism in the 1890s.\u201d\u00a0American Journalism<\/em>\u00a05, no. 4 (1988): 191\u2013203.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fordham, Helen. \u201cSubversive Voices: George Seldes and Mid-Twentieth-Century Muckraking.\u201d\u00a0American Journalism<\/em>\u00a033:4 (2016): 424\u2013441.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghiglione, Loren.  Radio\u2019s Revolution: Don Hollenbeck\u2019s<\/em> CBS Views the Press.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goldstein, Tom, ed.  Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodman, David. \u201cThe Tentacles of a Mighty Octopus: Right Populist Critiques of Early American Network Broadcasting.\u201d Media History<\/em> 20 (June 2014): 254\u2013268.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison, Stanley L.  “The Wayward Press Revisited: The Contributions of Robert Benchley.”  Journalism History<\/em> 19 (1993): 19-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison, S.L. \u201cMencken, Reluctant Muckraker.\u201d Menckeniana<\/em>, no. 190 (2009): 6\u201315. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hausman, Linda Weiner.  “Criticism of the Press in U.S. Periodicals, 1900-1939: An Annotated Bibliography.”  Journalism Monographs<\/em> No. 4 (August 1967).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbst, Susan.  “Assessing Public Opinion in the 1930s-1940s: Retrospective Views of Journalists.” Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 67 (1990): 943-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hudson, Robert V.  \u201cWill Irwin\u2019s Pioneering Criticism of the Press.\u201d  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 47 (Summer 1970): 263-271.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irwin, Will.  Propaganda and the News, or What Makes you Think So?<\/em>  New York: Whittlesey House, 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lebvic, Sam.  \u201cWhen the \u2018Mainsteam Media\u2019 was Conservative: Media Criticism in the Age of Reform,\u201d in Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America<\/em>, eds. Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lehmann, Chris.  \u201cA. J. Liebling and the Plight of Press Criticism.\u201d  Raritan<\/em> 26 (Summer 2006): 137\u201351.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liebling, A.J.  The Wayward Pressman<\/em>.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liebling, A.J.  Mink and Red Herring:<\/em> The Wayward Pressman\u2019s Casebook<\/em>.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liebling, A. J.  The Press<\/em>.  New York: Ballantine, 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lippman, Theo. \u201cH. L. Mencken and Press Criticism.\u201d Menckeniana<\/em>, no. 59 (1976): 2\u201313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McChesney, Robert W., and Ben Scott.  Our Unfree Press: One Hundred Years of Radical Media Criticism<\/em>.  New York: New Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marzlof, Marion T.  Civilizing Voices: American Press Criticism 1880-1950<\/em>.  New York: Longman, 1991. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midura, Edmund.  \u201cAn Evaluation of A.J. Liebling\u2019s Performance as Critic of the Press.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 1969. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midura, Edmund M.  “A.J. Liebling: The Wayward Pressman as Critic.”  Journalism Monographs<\/em> 33 (April 1974).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nemeth, Neil.  \u201cFrom Reporting Sleuth to Pioneer in Media Accountability: The Career of the New York World\u2019s Isaac D. White.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 25:3 (Summer 2008): 7-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ranley, Donald P.  “The Challengers: Social Pressures on the Press, 1965-1975.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reynolds, Amy & Hicks, Gary. Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era.<\/em> Los Angeles: Litwin Books, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rodgers, Ronald R.  \u201cThe Problems of Journalism: An Annotated Bibliography of Press Criticism in Editor &<\/em> Publisher<\/em>, 1901-1923.\u201d  Media History Monographs<\/em> 9:2 (2007): 1-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rodgers, Ronald R.  \u201cCollier\u2019s Criticism of the Press During the Norman Hapgood Years, 1902 to 1913.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 25:4 (Fall 2008): 7-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steffens, Lincoln.  The $ystem: Journalism 1897-1920<\/em>.  Tom Streissguth, ed.  Archive of American Journalism, 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trammell, James Young. \u201cThe Power of Religious Media Criticism: An Analysis of the Christian Film and Television Commission, 1985\u20132005.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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