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Reprise: media worries of 1903.

Publication: Canadian Speeches
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1113 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Reprise: media worries of 1903.(Chris Dornan)(Transcript)

Article Excerpt
Today's concerns about the quality and direction of journalism sound very much like those expressed 100 years ago. Excerpts from evidence presented May 6.

If only to put things into historical context, I recommend this book to you. It is entitled "How Can Canadian Universities Best Benefit the Profession of Journalism as a Means of Moulding and Elevating Public Opinion?" It was published in 1903 -- exactly 100 years ago. It is the progenitor of this Senate committee inquiry; the first time these persistent anxieties about the media were set down for the record. It is actually quite illuminating.

The book came about because Sir Sanford Fleming, then the chancellor of Queen's University, was sufficiently concerned, if not alarmed, about the increasing social influence of the newfangled, as it then was, mass circulation newspaper that he commissioned a $250 essay prize inviting suggestions for the betterment of Canadian journalism and the correction of its shortcomings. The best 13 submissions were collected in a volume and published...

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