Beschreibung
In this book, Dane S. Claussen argues that the news media have fed vocationalism and self-doubt in higher education, and anti-intellectualism throughout American culture. Analyzing articles in popular national magazines since the G.I. Bill of 1944, Claussen finds that media have overwhelmingly portrayed college as a time and place for students to play sports, date and marry, drink and take drugs, protest, join fraternities and sororities, go on vacations, avoid the draft, escape their parents, and, perhaps most of all, network and find jobs – in short, do almost anything except research, study, write, think, or debate. In the tradition of Richard Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-intellectualism in American Life and Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind, Claussen illustrates the counterintuitive and underestimated – nearly overlooked – role of the news media in higher education and anti-intellectualism.
Autorenportrait
The Author: Dane S. Claussen is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of, and a contributor to, Standing on the Promises (1999), The Promise Keepers (2000), and Sex, Religion, Media (2002). Claussen is a newspaper management consultant, former editor of the Industrial Marketing Practitioner newsletter, and a former editor and publisher of daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly newspapers.
