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On 17 November 2011 00:49, Eugene Correia <eugene.corr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...Will continue to antagonize and provoke as they say that a
> journalist's job is “to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted."
Eugene, Where did this quote come from? My curiosity (and ignorance)
took me to Google to check.
Wikipedia attributes it to Finley Peter Dunne (July 10, 1867-April 24,
1936), the Chicago-based U.S. author, writer and humorist. (It was
subsequently borrowed by others -- Clare Booth Luce in a memorable
tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt; several religious leaders (including one
Archbishop of Canterbury) have called it the goal of religion; social
activist "Mother" Mary Jones; and a version showed up in a memorable
line delivered by Gene Kelly in a great newspaper movie, Stanley
Kramer's 1960 film, Inherit the Wind.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Peter_Dunne
But, in the original sense: "As a journalist in the age of "muckraking
journalism", Dunne was aware of the power of institutions, including
his own. Writing as Dooley, Dunne once wrote the following passage
cautioning against the power of the newspapers themselves: "Th
newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th'
banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th'
young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th'
comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Peter_Dunne
The word "muckraker" seems to have many different meanings. Sometimes
positive. Or: "The term is a reference to a character in John Bunyan's
classic Pilgrim's Progress, "the Man with the Muck-rake" that rejected
salvation to focus on filth. It became popular after President
Theodore Roosevelt referred to the character in a 1906 speech."
Would be glad to hear your views on "muckraking journalism" and the
possibility of misuse of powers of the media? FN
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