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‘Enslaving demand of the dollar press’
Ida Tarbell, who tore into the Standard Oil monopoly, did not attend a journalism school. Nor did Lincoln Steffens — or any of the muckraking reporters of the Progressive Era who fueled political and social reform in the early 20th century. A century ago, the Daily Worker suggested journalism schools — the University of Missouri’s Continue reading
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‘Limiting free speech’
U.S. District Judge William G. Young, a Reagan appointee, issued a remarkable 161-page ruling on Sept. 30 that found the Trump administration unconstitutionally violated the free speech rights of pro-Palestinian protesters and academics. Among the 85-year-old jurist’s findings: ICE agents wore masks to “terrorize Americans” and the administration incorrectly conflated antisemitism with criticism of Israel. Continue reading
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‘We are governed by boodlers’
“It is useless to simply change the men in office. It is the system itself, the real source of corruption, that must be changed.” — Dr. William Preston Hill, a St. Louis physician, reformer and leader of the Referendum League, which championed the Initiative and Referendum Constitutional Amendment, approved by Missouri voters in 1908. Here Continue reading
Roland Klose 