WRDS 2P16 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pr Newswire, Walter Duranty, Walter Lippmann

• School: Brock University
• Department: English Language and Literature
• Course: WRDS 2P16
• Professor: All

Document Summary

News management discourse- the social practices of objective and fake news . Making and the evolution of press release writing. Fake news is not new: first century bc octavian ran a campaign of misinformation against mark. Antony: pulitizer prize winner walter duranty publishes a series of articles denying. Holodomor in 1930"s: kelly anne conway invents a terrorist attack bowling green massacre to justify president trump"s travel ban on 7 muslim-majority countries. A brief history of the tension between real and fake news: 1440 printing press enables wide spread distribution of news but real news is hard to verify, 1860s-1880s journalists began to see their roles as news makers. Journalist align themselves with political parties paying publishers bills: 19t century, cheaper newsprint and improved presses allowed partisan newspapers to expand their reach dramatically, sensationalism also becomes a key selling factor of new stories. Joseph pulitzer publishes exaggerated crime dramas to sell more copies of the.