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May 18, 2010

Studying History
– contemporary History
– comparative History
– social history
– good history vs. bad history

Changing Social Norms


– Gary Heart – ran for president, media follow him, found him cheating. This
changed everything because now people wanted to know about politicians. The
Miami Herald exposed him.

News values
– timeliness
– impact
– prominence – more import the people are/ more recognized name
– proximity – how close it is to the readers
– oddity
– public affairs – government
– conflict

Additional News Concern


– 1st Amendment/libel
– ethnics/objectivity – have a “code”
– audience
– advertising
– technology
– sociology of newsroom

American Journalism Principles - 5 media theories


– agenda setting – role media has in setting the agenda
– framing – how the story is covered look at production and content
– symbolize annihilation – opposite to agenda setting 1) not covering an issue 2)
mocking of an issue
– hypodermic needle theory – now disproved, said we always believe the
government
– media effects

Basic Timeline: 1600/1700s


– 1690: Publick occurrences – 1st American Newspaper
– 1735: Zenger Trial – published info critical of govt. but jury didn’t find him guilty.
– 1741: American magazines – 1st American Magazines
– 1791: Bill of Rights
Basic Timeline 1800s
– 1827: Freedom’s Journal – 1st Black newspaper in the U.S.
– 1830: Penny Press – everyone can now afford newspapers
– 1848: Associated Press
– 1894: NY Worlds women’s page – 1st time women could be hired by newspapers
– 1899: Nellie Bly circles the world – she was a stunt girl.

Basic Timeline 1900 – 1930s


– 1920: 1st U.S. radio stations
– 1923: Time magazine debuts
– 1933: E. Roosevelt press conferences – (Roosevelt Rule) press conference only
covered by women
– 1938: “War of the Worlds”
– 1939: TV @ the World’s Fair

Chapter 16: Focus on How the Media Shaped History

#1 Leading Society
– influencing events/setting agendas
– ida tarbell – investigated standard oil
– civil rights coverage

#2 Standing Alone
– breaking form the pack
– the liberator KKK
– “See it Now”
– Washington Post & Watergate

#3 Personal sacrifice
– William Lloyd Garrison
– Elijah Lovejoy
– Moe Levy

#4 Principle over financial gain


– Harper’s Weekly – corruption in NY
– Washington Post – Watergate
– American Revolution of 1963 – NBC

#5 Ignoring Women/minorities
– NY Herald/Seneca Falls
– NY World/Susan B. Anthony

#6 Power of visual images


– Anti-KKK cartoons
– Rosie the Riveter
– Civil Rights
– Vietnam War
#7 Pen is mightier than corruption
– Tom Paine
– Fredrick Douglas
– Anti-women’s right authors

#8 Technological Advances
– McClure’s magazine – print cheaply
– Vietnam War

#9 Journalism = difference
– investigative journalism
– ignoring injustice

#10 Power and limitations


– “shining a light”
– pure food and Drug Act
– Watergate/government

May 19, 2010


Conflicting History
- “Who’s right?
- Female First example:
- Gloria Biggs? : 1973 1st publisher of Melbourne Times she had only the title
- Carol Sutton? : 1975 1st former female managing editor @ Louieville Currier
- Mary Ann Dolan? : 1981 managing editor of Harold Examiner

Studying journalism
– production
– content
– audience

Production
– how do we know what we know

Primary Sources
– archival materials – most powerful (diaries, letters)
– memoirs
– oral histories
– speeches

Secondary Sources
– newspaper histories
– community histories
– social/political histories
– newspaper articles

Discovering Maggie Savory


– historical values?: award winning, gave workshop to other women
– secondary sources?: wrote for Arizona Republic but doesn’t give much
– archives?
– Documenting

Good History
– value of primary sources

Production and Framing Theory


– socialization of newsroom
– news process/deadlines
– headlines
– A.P style
– world choice
– photos

Equal Rights Movement


– equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States of by any on accord of sex.

Lucy Store founded Woman’s Journal


– a few less abrasive journalistic endeavor than the Revolution

Early Media Forms


– newspapers/magazines
– pamphlets
– fliers – could reach the illiterate

Summer of 1776
– using words to transform “lukewarm patriots into fiery revolutionaries”

Sam Adams
– Boston Gazette – 1760
– Journal of Occurrences – 1768
– News vs propaganda
– Bylines
– Good history

Boston Massacure
– Boston Gazette articles
– Literacy rates
– Fliers

Tom Paine
– Pennsylvania Magazine
– Common Sense – 1776
– Mass audience
– Audience reaction
– Crisis and the Army

Revolutionary Press
– “ that Rebellion would have been impossible without the spur of the press”

Chapter 2: Abolition
– turning America’s conscious again the sins of slavery

Abolitionist Press
– Rev. Elijah Lovejoy – 1st martyr
– William Lloyd Garrison
– Maria Stewart – wrote women’s page in Garrison paper
– Fredrick Douglass – publish the North Star

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