Word: reformists
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...possibilities of effecting social reform through newspaper editorial policy have led many enthusiastic and idealistic journalists to urge the recognition of journalism as a profession of great social value. But Dean Ackerman of the Columbia School of Journalism in characterizing journalism as an occupation of great reformist potentialities presents an entirely new view of the problem. A principal service of a journal in an economic world, the Dean declares, is in facilitating the economic processes of that world. The newspaper performs this service by bringing together buyer and seller through the advertisements in its columns...
...about city politics from Manhattan of the 1890's. first as police reporter on the Evening Post, then as city editor of The Commercial Advertiser. His personal popularity with crooks and grafters, combined with unassailable integrity and a trenchant style, soon put him in the first rank of reformist journalism, in the forefront of those of whom his great & good friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed "muckrakers." Steffens came into national prominence with his series in McClure's Magazine on the "shame of the cities": factual but highly colored articles exposing the corrupt politics of Philadelphia, St. Louis. Minneapolis, Pittsburgh...
...active disbeliever in capitalist economics, Steffens is skeptical of them; thinks not only that business controls government but that politicians are venal by profession. His journalism might be said to have been more revelatory than reformist. His (implicit) advice: find the facts, clear your soul of cant...
...told the King," cried Reformist (i. e. Constitutionalist) Leader Melquiades Alvarez Gonzalez, "that it was useless to waste time trying to form any cabinet except one of men who want a new constitution...
...something lacking under the old regime, and have turned eagerly towards this new movement for freedom. Nor has the 'Youth Movement' any political significance. It has within it groups from all parties who have broken away from the old order. There is the Socialist group, the Catholic group, the Reformist group and so on. Under these circumstances it is quite evident that any attempt at unification--assuming that any were to be made--would necessarily result in failure. The common tie is one far deeper than organization; so deep in fact that these different groups hardly realize that it exists...