In my humble opinion (which means my opinion is probably anything but) the internet has officially become a dumping ground for naked photos. We officially live in a world where we want to know what naked celebrities look like, and since they take those sort of pictures it is now possible. Is there a reason […]
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Exposing hidden agenda: David Graham Phillips
Posted by: kasibumgarner | November 11, 2014 | No Comment |David Graham Phillips was a prominent muckraking journalist and novelist in the late 19th and early 20th century. Following the success of his first novel, The Great God Success, he was able to continue his career in fiction writing and begin work as a free lance journalist. Throughout this portion of his career, Phillips built a […]
The murder of Helen Jewett in 1836 gave way to a template for crime reporting which endures to the present day. And the gruesome crime would have been forgotten if it wasn’t for the evolution of American newspapers. At the time, most newspapers thrived on information that consisted of stories about commerce and […]
Airports: Transportation, time and keepers of the textual flame
Posted by: sruffin | November 10, 2014 | No Comment |The wonders of nature: when disaster strikes in the public eye
Posted by: kasibumgarner | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |During the 16th century, pamphlet readers were exposed to a variety of content. This news often affected the readers themselves, or large groups of people elsewhere. One of the primary topics covered in this “developing news market” was natural disasters and other natural phenomena. The instinctual fear and curiosity about the unknown would drive these […]
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Two great fleets met in the Gulf of Lepanto on Oct. 7, 1571 and resulted in a crushing victory for the Holy League. First news of the stunning victory arrived in Venice 12 days later: on Oct. 19. The Battle: By 1571 Muslims were firmly installed in Europe with their ships ruling the Mediterranean […]
Lowell Thomas, writer, traveler, broadcaster, was the first ever live television news broadcaster. His broadcast aired on NBC network in 1939. It was a short stint that aired once a week and were summary type shows. The show did not last very long and there are numerous accounts to why. First, It was said that Lowell […]
The haze: storytelling’s influence on early American newspapers
Posted by: kasibumgarner | October 21, 2014 | No Comment |Although the rise of print journalism helped to improve the accuracy of news being spread, it didn’t escape the influence of storytelling/word of mouth completely, especially about international affairs. Mitchell Stephens refers to this phenomenon in our text as “The Haze”, a factor that causes events out of the region’s range “to be seen in […]
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War reporting sets public opinion ablaze. “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.”— William Randolph Hearst And thus, war reporting was born. The American public is bombarded with war reports. Some call for protests, others for support and all call for attention. The weapon of choice in this information war is photographs, or photojournalism to be more precise. […]
A morning glory, hold up, armed robbery and a passing of the note are all common ways that criminals rob people. Moreover it was the “traditional way” that criminals robbed people. That is until technology exploded and transactions as we know it of purchasing in brick-and-mortar are gearing more towards online shopping and even online […]