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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tucher, Andie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1994.
Subjects:
Journalism > Objectivity > United States.
Journalistic ethics > United States.
Presse > Objectivité > États-Unis.
Journalistes > Déontologie > États-Unis.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Journalism > Objectivity
Journalistic ethics
Journalistiek.
Boulevardpers.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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