Early newspapers were not the most organized. Facts, the most important part of a news story, were often burried deep in a story and difficult to find. The inverted pyramid changed that completely and made things much easier on the reader. American journalists found that telegraphs could be unreliable. They developed a system of transmitting […]
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Schudson chapter four: journalism after WWI
Posted by: donaldomahony | December 2, 2009 | No Comment |There are three sections in this chapter. The first is called “Losing Faith in the Democratic Market Society.” Basically, this section talked about how people did not have a good feeling about how well democracy was going to work. Some people felt like a dictatorship might be better because, as Nicholas Murray Butler put it, dictatorship “appears […]
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Tags: butler, Journalism, lee, lippmann, macdougall, o'mahony, Objectivity, reporting
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In 1798, the Alien and Sedition Acts were signed by John Adams. The latter of the two was written to prevent papers being published that were “false, scandalous and malicious writing … against the Government of the United States” and threatened punishment “by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollar, and by imprisonment not exceeding […]
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Tags: alien, free speech, jail, john adams, matthew lyon, o'mahony, president, sedition, thomas jefferson
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Once denied the right to learn to read because he was told he “should know nothing but to obey his master, to do as he is told to do,” Frederick Douglass did well to become one of the greatest journalists in American history. Douglass was born a slave in Maryland and separated from his mother as […]
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Tags: abolition, Frederick Douglass, journalist, liberator, north star, o'mahony, Slavery, William Lloyd Garrison, womens rights
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On April 24, 1704, the “Boston News-Letter” made made its debut as the first continually published newspaper in North America. It was a one page sheet printed front and back and issued weekly. A local bookseller and postmaster named John Campbell was the first publisher. The paper originally contained news mostly on Brittish news and […]
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Tags: blackbeard, boston, brittish, Newspaper, o'mahony, pirate, Sensationalism
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The “Acta” was the official text of ancient Rome. It was first written in 131 B.C. and it was carved into stone or metal. For the most part, the “Acta” was a public document. However, it was sometimes restricted by the government. In 59 B.C., Julius Caesar ordered the posting of the “Acta” in public […]
The circulation battle of Pulitzer and Hearst
Posted by: donaldomahony | September 16, 2009 | No Comment |At first, Joseph Pulitzer did not have to worry much about competing with other newspapers. He purchased the “New York World” in 1883 and things were going well. Under Pulitzer, the “World” had circulation grow from 15,000 to 600,000. However, things started to change in 1895. William Randolph Hearst purchased the “New York Journal” and wasted […]