The initial state of the news industry in America started with the newspaper. In 1704, the Boston Newsletter became the first continuously distributed newspaper in America. These newspapers were hand-crafted through the use of the printing press and were distributed and sold on foot by workers. For this reason, newspapers were expensive and were generally bought by upper-class.…
What typically motivates people to do anything? Self-Interest, and America did not fall short of this characteristic throughout the following years: 1895-1920. There were always hidden causes in America’s actions such as land, money, and power, which were strong influences in the young World Power’s influences. This is evident through the imperialistic nature of America always growing and needing somewhere to further its claws, the demand from the ever growing economic system, and the power that radiated from the growing nation, and even the president. Once America became aware of its strength, the wish to ‘expand’ became merely only a part of America’s natural tendency.…
In Brooke Gladstone’s graphic novel entitled “The Influencing Machine”, journalistic media is evaluated throughout its evolution. Due to the complexity of the subject, many different qualities of the media are explored throughout the novel; however, four main, controversial themes are always evident, and those four are the purpose, necessity, honesty, and reliability of journalistic media. After reading Gladstone’s informative graphic novel, enough information can be acquired in order to form valid, cohesive opinions regarding different characteristics of journalistic media. Throughout history, all prosperous phenomena share one commonality: they’re purposeful.…
American newspaper publisher, William Randolph Hearst, built the nation's largest newspaper chain. He was born in San Francisco, to millionaire mining engineer, goldmine owner and U.S. senator (from 1886–91) George Hearst and his wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Phoebe Apperson was the first woman advisor of University of California, Berkeley. She funded many anthropological expeditions and founded the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.…
Business developments in the late nineteenth caused major changes in the lives of citizens, how they worked and how the government functioned. Society changed with new inventions and with the new of idea of Social Darwinism. The standard of living increased, increasing the amount of required by each worker. Big business owners did not care about the conditions of labor; they only cared if they made a profit. The government was being manipulated by the rich and lost power over the rich.…
Since the beginning of American journalism, there has been a relationship between the reader and journalist of supply and demand. The reader wants scandalous or critical news and the journalist is happy to provide. In the 1960s, Clare Boothe Luce, in a speech made for the journalists in Women's National Press Club, criticizes the journalists for their seemingly mindless continuation of the supply and demand cycle. Luce challenges them to focus on the complete truth, rather than a fantastical half-truth. She prepares the audience for this message by beginning with a metaphor that emphasizes the importance of her message, using an ironic tone, not to be missed by the journalists, and by using ethos to remind the journalists what their responsibilities entail.…
Along with the turn of the century came a change in the American lifestyle. Middle-class citizens no longer focused on dull industrial work, but the excitement of leisurely activities. With the sudden increase in literacy, many people found reading very enjoyable. Mass production printing presses were able to quickly and cheaply produce newspapers, such as the New York World,…
The second year that Hearst was over the New York Journal was one of the most triumphant years for him. In-between the twelve months starting in November, 1896, William Hearst had improved his new service tremendously and surprised the town by admirably crusading, completely took over Pulitzer’s World in circulation. Alas the year did not start off this as well as Hearst would have wanted because several reformers believed that the Journal and the World exploited the sex and crime in their papers and that they were nothing more than public menaces. Preachers were also preaching against them in the pulpit, clubs and librarians cancelled their subscriptions and boycotted them. While at the same time the crime-and-sex sensationalism had been sustained.…
In early 1900, it was rare to have music in your home. Thanks to the phonograph however it was possible. The musical range was very limited, and the quality was poor, but it was something. Nowadays, you just go on the internet and you have basically every song ever produced. The record player has made a big comeback today and is popular among hipsters and indie music junkies who like it because of the "authentic" sound.…
The Life of Mark Twain Samuel L.Clemens or more known as his pen name, Mark Twain, was born on November 20, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was an american humorist, journalist, and novelist who authored several novels including 2 American classics: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was one of the most incredible and influential writers in American literature and his influence is still very transparent today. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur, and inventor.…
“This article examines thus the role of creative writing in understanding journalism. It argues that non-academic writing – poetry in this case – can play a much more significant part in journalism research than that of an entertaining genre for disseminating a study’s findings, mainly to audiences beyond academia” (Archetti). This is a whole article made just by contrasting two different methods of a subject. This same thing is being done in Twenge’s article and both are expertly done and adds great power to their…
The article written by Hess has more opinions from different people and the use of a real example, but the article written by Ward is more factual and describes the different kinds of journalism. Ward’s article has more explanations about journalism and the steps behind creating it. The layout of both articles targets different kinds of audience. Hess’s article targets the people who read journalism and who have different opinions on the pieces they read. For example, Hess mentions that journalists are accountable to their readers (Para. 12).…
What happened to paper ? Is print the past. When reading the text of " print is dead" Ms. Jamison introduces the idea that a culture of magazines once very prominent and large is now slowly being terminated by technology now used by online media. The notion that print is dying is surely one to take with a grain of salt as print today is now filled with craft and sharpness. While magazines were out in the bunches in the past to bring information, today we have the Internet.…
Today, society rarely picks up a newspaper and reads it due to the many advances of how mass information is transmitted; however, there are still many popular newspapers in circulation which delivers news to mass audiences. Journalism has had many advances from when the first newspaper was written, today major newspapers are delivered to mass audiences all over the world; like any other major breakthrough, newspaper journalism had to start somewhere. In the 1600 's the first American newspaper was published. During the Revolutionary war newspapers grew rapidly, which started the political press.…
Spielvogel indicated that “these tabloids provided lurid details of crimes, jingoistic diatribes, gossip, and sports news” (713). Some newspapers could sold millions of copies in a single day, which marked the significantly increase in literacy at the end of the nineteenth century. Literacy was one of the characteristics of the new mass culture. It should be studied today because the it helped to make newspapers to be an important part in the American life. The fierce competition due to the popularity of the yellow press contributed to the wide distribution of…