Chudacoff stresses a point in the reading concerning journalism and communications. Journalism satisfies two objectives: “the strong urge to know facts” and to satisfy the “strong faith in knowledge and conscience as reforming agents” (154). Found in both modern society and the early 1900s, the general public has a need to have, or the access to, information that allows them to have an understanding of the urban society. With the invention of the steam press, copies could be printed at a faster rate, and gave rise to many newspapers, such as the New York World published by Joseph Pulitzer and San Francisco Call published by William Randolph Hearst (154). The main attention grabber was to expose scandals and injustices of contemporary society. This trend is still found today, addressing situations such as the right to free speech and gay marriage.
