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195 Index Abolition, 33, 52–53, 60–63; 1850 antislavery convention, 59–62 Accuracy, as a journalistic value, 6 Adams, Henry, 103, 165 n. 41 Advertising, 47 African Americans, 28, 32–33, 36, 43, 50– 63, 117–137, 158 n. 67; accused of lawlessness during 1880s and 1890s, 119–127; conditions of slaves, 28; during Jacksonian age, 32, 33, 43; racism against, 113. See also Lynching; Slavery Amanpour, Christiane, 4 American Colonization Society, 32 American Indians, 28 Ames, Aldrich, 141 Anti-abolition, 52, 60–61 Anti-slavery. See Abolition Aristotle, 64 Art and realism, 103–105 Associated Press, 11, 67, 69, 91, 109, 123, 136 Astonishment, as a news value, 133–134 Atmosphere, as a cause of cholera, 98–99, 110 Balance, 7–8, 113–137, 142–143 Baldasty, Gerald, 149 n. 12 Bank of the United States (B.U.S.), 33, 43, 151 n. 28 Barnett, Ida B. Wells. See Wells, Ida B. Barthes, Roland, 133–134 Bates, David, 78 Bennett, James Gordon, Sr., 5, 12–13, 15– 16, 20, 22–26, 29–32, 35–39, 40–41, 45– 54, 59–64, 78, 99, 138; advertising policy , 47; as ‘‘centrist nonpartisan,’’ 45–49; compares himself to Socrates, 26; compares his work habits to others’, 152 n. 40; as extortionist, 152 n. 34; illustration, 27; insults ethnic groups, 36; presidential endorsements, 40; as professional communicator , 46–47; proslavery position, 47; ridicules Webb, 25. See also New York Herald Beyond the Inverted Pyramid, 8 Biddle, Nicholas, 22, 151 n. 28 Blair, Francis, 17 Blumenthal, Sidney, 4 Brill, Stephen, 139–140 Brinkley, David, 41 Brooklyn Eagle, 104 Brooks, Preston, 35 Buchanan, James, 76 Buchanan, Patrick, 3 Burke, Edmund, 64 Burr, Aaron, 34 Bush, George, 141 Butler, Andrew, 35 Cable News Network, 42 Cameron, Simon, 75, 77–78 Carey, James, 46, 109, 116, 167 n. 70 Carville, James, 3 CBS News, 2, 139–141 Chancellor, John, 40, 42 Checkbook journalism, 140 Chicago Globe, 65 Chicago Tribune, 73, 135 Cholera, 14, 96–101, 109–112; transportation aids spread of, 96 Cholera ‘‘cures,’’ 14, 98–100; alcohol and opium, 99; electric shocks, 100; immersion in ice water, 100; leeches, 98; mercury , 98; tobacco smoke enemas, 14, 98, 100 Cholera epidemic of 1832, 96–101 Cholera epidemic of 1849, 96, 99–101 Cholera epidemic of 1866, 101, 109–112 Chronological writing style, 13, 64–66, 69 Chung, Connie, 141 196 | Index Churchill, Winston, 142 Cilley, Jonathan, 32, 36–38 Circulation of newspapers, 138, 139, 148 n. 8, 151 n. 25; Herald, 15, 17, 22; Herald and Courier and Enquirer compared, 17; World and Sun compared, 130; Liberator, 157 n. 34 Civic journalism, 135–137 Civil War, American, 12, 41, 66–94, 103– 105, 115 Civilization: assessment of, by New York Times, 131 Clinton, Bill, 3, 9 Columbia Journalism Review, 5, 8 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 115 Columbian Exposition of 1893, 132 Commercial press. See Penny press Comprehensiveness, as a journalistic value, 6 Compromise of 1850, 60 Convict lease system, 126 Cooper, James F., 28 Cooper, Kent, 113 Courier and Enquirer. See Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer Crane, Stephen, 105 Cronkite, Walter, 5, 41 Cultural biases, 133 Daguerre, Louis, 103–104 Dana, Charles, 14, 70, 82–84, 86, 131; antiSemitic campaign against Pulitzer, 130; covering Grant, 87, 114 Darnton, Robert, 133 Darwin, Charles, 106, 107 Davis, Jefferson, 81 Day of two noons, 108 De Kay, Dr., 98 De Tocqueville, Alexis, 48 Deaver, Michael, 86 Declaration of Independence, 52 Deference, loss of during Jacksonian era, 25– 26 Democratic Party, 22, 40, 43–46, 50–54, 59– 61, 85, 125–126 Derrida, Jacques, 5 Detachment, 8, 12, 15–39, 136, 142–143 Diana, Princess, 134 Disturbed causality, 133–134 Dix, John A., 84, 89–91 Donaldson, Sam, 40 Douglass, Frederick, 13, 29, 41, 54–63, 122, 132, 135, 158 n. 62; Fifth of July speech, 58; illustration, 55; views on the U.S. Constitution, 57–58 Dred Scott decision, 57 Dreiser, Theodore, 65, 105 Drudge, Matt, 3–4 Duels, 25, 32, 34–38 Editorials, 114–115 Einstein, Albert, 5, 115 Election riots, New York, 32 Emerson, Ralph W., 57 Emery, Michael, and Edwin Emery, 44, 67 Empiricism, rise of. See Facticity Entertainment and news, 2 Evening Post, 33, 67 Everett, Edward, 86–87 Facticity, 13, 95–112, 137, 142–143; rise of empiricism, 100 Fairness, 7 Fairness Doctrine, 42 Ferraro, Geraldine, 3 Fifteenth Amendment, 125 Finney, Charles G., 28–29 Fisher, Amy, 3 Five-w lead. See Inverted pyramid Flowers, Gennifer, 3 Foote, Shelby, 84 Ford...

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