Sex trafficking, scandal, and the transformation of journalism, 1885-1917 /
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this representation through highly public campaigns against...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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Table des matières:
- White slavery and journalism's shifting axis of truth
- William T. Stead and the "soul" of sensationalism
- The journalism of reform and the reform of journalism
- George Kibbe Turner, muckraking, and the brief reign of piteous facts
- Authorizing skepticism: the New York Times and the demise of muckraking
- From sensation to secrecy: the Rockefeller grand jury and its aftermath.