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Froth & scum : truth, beauty, goodness, and the ax murder in America's first mass medium /
Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases - a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt - set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Fighting for the truth
- The penny press is born
- On public duty
- Who was Aspasia?
- Who killed Helen Jewett?
- Truth or humbuggery?
- The truth about humbug
- Murderous conventions
- Getting away with murder
- The end of the affair
- pt. 2. From humbug to authority
- Death of a printer
- A new face
- A war of morals, a clash of cultures
- For the virtuous and refined
- Greeley expounds on murder
- The human race advances
- The new improved Herald misses a story
- In search of James Gordon Fishblatt.