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The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

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From: Journalism History
Date: 20030701
Author:Sumpter, Randall S

Sinclair, Upton. The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 446 pp. $19.95.

When Upton Sinclair died in 1968, New York Times obituary writer Alden Whitman called him a rebel with a multitude of causes. While The Jungle may have impressed Sinclair upon the public mind of the Progressive Era as a crusader for clean food, The Brass Check, reissued this year by the University of Illinois Press, made him the watchdog of the press.

Sinclair's work also contributed a compelling metaphor to the study of mass communication: The "commercial" or ...

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