Archive for John C. Merrill
The Press and Peoples Right to Know
Is it the duty of the government to reveal, or the obligation of citizens to find out and understand, what the governors are doing to the governed?
1Feb1967 | John C. Merrill | 1 comment | ContinuedDanger to a Free Press
Dr. Merrill, Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Missouri, offers, among others, a graduate course on "Basic Issues in the News." Although isolated journalists, statesmen, and academicians had long toyed with the term "responsibility" as well as "freedom" for the mass media, it was not until 1947 when the Commission on Freedom of [...]
1Jun1965 | John C. Merrill | 0 comments | Continued-
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