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14 Cards in this Set
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Compare Ben Franklin and William Randolf Hearst
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Themes
1. Hearst political, Franklin printed both sides of issue 2. Franklin: Successful b/c of business practices; Hearst: successful because of yellow journalism 3. Franklin= innovator; Hearst: trying to keep up with competition 4. Franklin: wanted to better the community; Hearst: wanted to turn a profit |
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Civil liberties in the context of the rise and fall of American media
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Campbell: first succesful newspapers
2. then came magazines by end of 19th century they were for different niches 3. Fixed amu. spent every year 5-6% 4. Media more open to issues when it is doing well |
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John Campbell
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1704, Boston Newsletter, first successful npaper in colonies,
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Life and Look magazines
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First successful ones
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Discuss the evolution of public issues in the context of the four ages of American media
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* Mass media reflects history, combines technology, public and social issues
1. 1700-1870: npaper dominance 2.1870-1930 Period of magazines 3. 1930s Network broadcasting 4. 1950s TV |
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Period of newspaper dominance
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1700-1870:
1. Idependence/Declaration/Constitutio 2. Conquering West 3. Civil War 4. Slavery * the "cancers" of our social system - all issues of PLACE, npapers formed in terms of place |
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Period of magazine dominance
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1870s-1930
1. Pulitizer, Hearst, Ochs 2. Power of class- white man's burden 3. Women's rights- suffrage 4. Blacks after war 5. Reconstruction- segreation, slaves and socialist all created niches 6. 1881 Helen Hunt Jackson "A Century of Dishnor" about indians- another niche |
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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1881, "A Century of Dishonor" about Indians- another niche
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Period of network broadcasting
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- 1930s
- NBC David Sarnoff - 1928 CBS William Paley 1. 1980s Berlin Wall, John Stewart now ( 2. Vertical Mass now |
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Hearst
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1st big-time media mogul: 28 npapers, magazines, books
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Frederick Douglass
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Spoke out for AAs, very articulate, former slave, wrote THe Liberator and published the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass and the North Star (abolitionsit npaper)
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Steffens
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Muckraker, McClure magazine, showed corruption of city government and political bosses
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Shame of the Cities
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Steffens
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Muckraker
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English term for one who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that violate widely held values, such as political corruption, corporate crime, child labor, conditions in slums, etc.
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