Froth and Scum Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium

Name: Froth and Scum Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium
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ISBN: 9780807844724

ISBN-10: 0807844721

ISBN-13: 9780807844724

Edition: 1994

Authors: Andie Tucher

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Two notorious antebellum New York murder casesa prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Coltset off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely new kind of newspapercheap, feisty, and politically independentintroduced American readers to the novel concept of what has come to be called objectivity in news coverage. The penny press was the first medium that claimed to present the true, unbiased facts to a democratic audience. But inFroth and Scum, Andie Tucher exploresand explodesthe notion that 'objective' reporting will discover a…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/18/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Andie Tucher, editorial producer of The Twentieth Century documentary series at ABC News, was a Clinton campaign speechwriter. She lives in New York.



Acknowledgments


Prologue



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



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 a Murder



The Human Race Advances



The New, Improved Herald--Misses a Story


In Search Of James Gordon Fishblatt


Epilogue


Notes


Sources


Index