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• catalog abstract "Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases - a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt - set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely new kind of newspaper - cheap, feisty, and politically independent - introduced American readers to the novel concept of what has come to be called objectivity in news coverage. The penny press was the first medium that claimed to present the true, unbiased facts to a democratic audience. But in Froth and Scum, Andie Tucher explores - and explodes - the notion that "objective" reporting will discover a single, definitive truth. As they do now, crime stories of the time aroused strong feelings about the possibility of justice, the privileges of power, and the nature of evil. The prostitute's murder in 1836 sparked an impassioned public debate, but one newspaper's "impartial investigation" pleased the powerful by helping the killer go free. Colt's 1841 murder of the tradesman inspired universal condemnation, but the newspapers' singleminded focus on his conviction allowed another secret criminal to escape. By examining media coverage of these two sensational murders, Tucher reveals how a community's needs and anxieties can shape its public truths. The manuscript of this book won the 1991 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians.".
• catalog alternative "Froth and scum.".
• catalog contributor b6559944.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "As they do now, crime stories of the time aroused strong feelings about the possibility of justice, the privileges of power, and the nature of evil. The prostitute's murder in 1836 sparked an impassioned public debate, but one newspaper's "impartial investigation" pleased the powerful by helping the killer go free. Colt's 1841 murder of the tradesman inspired universal condemnation, but the newspapers' singleminded focus on his conviction allowed another secret criminal to escape. By examining media coverage of these two sensational murders, Tucher reveals how a community's needs and anxieties can shape its public truths. The manuscript of this book won the 1991 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-244) and index.".
• catalog description "Prologue -- Part I: Fighting for the truth. The penny press is born ; On public duty ; Who was Aspasia? ; Who killed Helen Jewett? ; Truth or humbuggery? ; The truth about humbug ; Murderous conventions ; Getting away with murder ; The end of the affair -- Part II: From humbug to authority. Death of a printer ; A new face ; A war of morals, a clash of cultures ; For the virtuous and refined ; Greeley expounds on murder ; The human race advances ; The new improved Herald : misses a story ; In search of James Gordon Fishblatt -- Epilogue.".
• catalog description "Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases - a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt - set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely new kind of newspaper - cheap, feisty, and politically independent - introduced American readers to the novel concept of what has come to be called objectivity in news coverage. The penny press was the first medium that claimed to present the true, unbiased facts to a democratic audience. But in Froth and Scum, Andie Tucher explores - and explodes - the notion that "objective" reporting will discover a single, definitive truth.".
• catalog extent "ix, 257 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Froth & scum.".
• catalog identifier "0807821624 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0807844721 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Froth & scum.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
• catalog relation "Froth & scum.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "071/.3 20".
• catalog subject "Journalism Objectivity United States.".
• catalog subject "Journalistic ethics United States.".
• catalog subject "PN4888.O25 T83 1994".
• catalog subject "Press United States Objectivity.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- Part I: Fighting for the truth. The penny press is born ; On public duty ; Who was Aspasia? ; Who killed Helen Jewett? ; Truth or humbuggery? ; The truth about humbug ; Murderous conventions ; Getting away with murder ; The end of the affair -- Part II: From humbug to authority. Death of a printer ; A new face ; A war of morals, a clash of cultures ; For the virtuous and refined ; Greeley expounds on murder ; The human race advances ; The new improved Herald : misses a story ; In search of James Gordon Fishblatt -- Epilogue.".
• catalog title "Froth & scum : truth, beauty, goodness, and the ax murder in America's first mass medium / Andie Tucher.".
• catalog title "Froth and scum.".
• catalog type "text".