HIST 3838 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Takers, Robert Ripley, Equity Sharing
17 Dec 2016
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Political platforms for educated elites: reading (american football, the local global: 1900-1920, newspaper sport cartooning (fitzmaurice & ripley, early radio and tv transmissions, the penny press & (cid:498)yellow journalism(cid:499) of (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:890)(cid:882)s 1890s. Only real (cid:498)media(cid:499) in (cid:883)(cid:890)th and 19th century. Some sports news (horses prize fighting, foxhunts) bell"s life in london. By 1830s changes in printing technology new rotary press powered by. In 1858 first trans atlantic cable laid, by 1866 reliable telegraphic. By 1850s telegraph permitted faster news communication (1822) First general interest newspaper that covered sections. Some sections: business news, weather, crime, foreign correspondents, published by james gordon bennett sr. By 1862 there is coverage of baseball as a specialist field of reporting. Baseball was already growing in popularity, but the news paper advanced baseball as people became more interested. Bought the new york world in 1883. Sensationalized stories, illustrations, evening editions, inserts and special sections. Now starting to see sport sections, cover a lot of pages.
