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The Brass Check
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Author : Upton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-17
The Brass Check written by Upton Sinclair and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering or sensationalism. By extension, the term yellow journalism is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion. In 1919, Upton Sinclair published "The Brass Check", a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created._x000D_ Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American author who wrote books in many genres, but in all of them advocating for the moral ethics, better life style for the working people and social justice. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
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Author : Upton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-12-15
The Brass Check written by Upton Sinclair and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with Political Science categories.
A muckraking exposé of corruption in American journalism from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Jungle Upton Sinclair dedicated his life to documenting the destructive force of unbridled capitalism. In this influential study, he takes on the effect of money and power on mass media, arguing that the newspapers, magazines, and wire services of the Progressive era formed “a class institution serving the rich and spurning the poor.” In the early twentieth century, a “brass check” was a token purchased by brothel patrons. By drawing a comparison between journalists and prostitutes, Sinclair highlights the total control publishers such as William Randolph Hearst exerted over their empires. Reporters and editors were paid to service the financial and political interests of their bosses, even if that meant misrepresenting the facts or outright lying. Sinclair documents specific cases, including the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 and the Red Scare whipped up by Hearst’s New York Journal and other newspapers, in which major news outlets ignored the truth in favor of tabloid sensationalism. Sinclair considered The Brass Check to be his most important and most dangerous book. Nearly a century later, his impassioned call for reform is timelier than ever. This ebook has been authorized by the estate of Upton Sinclair.
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Author : Upton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-03-31
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The Brass Check A Study Of American Journalism
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Author : Upton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01
The Brass Check A Study Of American Journalism written by Upton Sinclair and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01 with categories.
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Author : Upton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-09-15
The Brass Check written by Upton Sinclair and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Excerpt from The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism He had rich relatives who were fond of him, so that he was free to escape from poverty into luxury; he had the opportunity to rise quickly in the world, if he would go into business, and devote his attention thereto. But would he find in business the ideals which he craved? He talked with business men, also he got the avor of business from the advertisements in the newspapers - and he knew that this was not what he was seeking. He cultivated the friendship of Jesus, Hamlet and Shelley, and fell in love with the young Milton and the young Goethe; in them he found his own craving for truth and beauty. Here, through the medium of art, life might be ennobled, and lifted from the muck of graft and greed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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Author : Sinclair Upton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
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The Brass Check
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Author : Eaton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
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Author : Upton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-23
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Turning his muckraking talents to journalism itself, Upton Sinclair exposes a variety of the news media's ingrained biases and its agenda-serving corruption. Upton Sinclair became famous for exposing filthy and inhumane conditions in the American meat packing industry at the turn of the 20th century. Following these revelations, new laws were made protecting factory workers and their conditions. Sinclair afterwards became a figure for condemnation ? his personal life was scrutinized and subjected to spurious gossip and rumor, the cause being that the vast majority of newspaper corporations opposed his pro-worker, pro-regulation views. The title of this book alludes to a common practice in brothels: those frequenting these establishments would buy ?brass checks? to hand to the woman of their choice. Sinclair draws a parallel between such customers and the proprietors of the media, who delegate the promotion of their political, financial and social agendas to journalists willing to propagate such ideas.
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Author : Upton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-23
The Brass Check written by Upton Sinclair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-23 with History categories.
Turning his muckraking talents to journalism itself, Upton Sinclair exposes a variety of the news media's ingrained biases and its agenda-serving corruption. Upton Sinclair became famous for exposing filthy and inhumane conditions in the American meat packing industry at the turn of the 20th century. Following these revelations, new laws were made protecting factory workers and their conditions. Sinclair afterwards became a figure for condemnation - his personal life was scrutinized and subjected to spurious gossip and rumor, the cause being that the vast majority of newspaper corporations opposed his pro-worker, pro-regulation views. The title of this book alludes to a common practice in brothels: those frequenting these establishments would buy 'brass checks' to hand to the woman of their choice. Sinclair draws a parallel between such customers and the proprietors of the media, who delegate the promotion of their political, financial and social agendas to journalists willing to propagate such ideas.
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Author : Upton Sinclair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-03
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The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism by Upton Sinclair The first part of the novel focuses on Mrs. Morel and her unhappy marriage to a drinking miner. She has many fights with her husband, some of which have painful results: on several occasions, she is locked out of the house and hit in the head with a drawer. Separated from her husband, Mrs. Morel finds comfort in her four children, especially her children. Her eldest son, William, is her favorite of hers, and she is very upset when he takes a job in London and moves away from his family. When William falls ill and dies a few years later, she is crushed, without even noticing the rest of her children until she almost loses Paul, her second child, too. From that point on, Paul becomes the focus of her life, and the two seem to live for each other. Paul falls in love with Miriam Leivers, who lives on a farm not too far from the Morel family. They carry on a very intimate but purely platonic relationship for many years. Ms. Morel doesn't approve of Miriam, and this may be the main reason Paul doesn't marry her. He constantly fluctuates in her feelings towards her. Paul meets Clara Dawes, a suffragette separated from her husband, through Miriam. As he approaches Clara and they begin to discuss her relationship with Miriam, she tells him that she should consider consuming their love and he goes back to Miriam to see how he feels. Paul and Miriam sleep together and are briefly happy, but shortly after Paul decides he doesn't want to marry Miriam, and so he breaks up with her. He still feels that his soul belongs to her and, in part, reluctantly accepts. However, he realizes that he loves mother more than she does. After breaking off his relationship with Miriam, Paul begins spending more time with Clara and they begin an extremely passionate relationship. However, he does not want to divorce her husband Baxter and therefore they can never be married. Paolo's mother falls ill and he spends most of her time taking care of her. When she finally dies, he is heartbroken and, after one last plea from Miriam, he goes away alone at the end of the novel.