News and the Human Interest Story (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hughes, Helen Macgill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day. She shows how such commonly found interests as a taste for news of the town, ordinary gossip, and moving or gripping tales with a legendary or mythic quality have reflected the tastes of ordinary folk from the days of illiterate audiences to the present. She explains how these interests ultimately were combined with practical economic and political information to create the substance and demand for a popular press.

In describing the rise and fall of newspaper empires, each with their special readership attractions, Hughes shows how technological innovation and idiosyncratic creativity were used by owners to capture and hold a reading audience. Once this audience developed, it could be fed a variety of messages-beamed at reinforcing and maintaining both general and specific publics-as well as a view of the world consonant with that of the publisher and major advertisers. Hughes offers a persuasive argument for the continuing viability of this method for combined social control, instruction, and amusement captured by the association of news and the human interest story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351503020
• Artikelnr.: 48867562

Autorenporträt

Helen MacGill Hughes

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
I. FROM POLITICS TO HuMAN INTEREST
II. THE FRONT PAGE
III. BIG NEWS AND LITTLE NEWS
IV. THE REPORTER AND THE NEWS
V. HUMAN INTEREST
VI. THE BROADSIDE BALLAD
VII. THE NEWS AND THE STORY
VIII. PERENNIAL STORIES
IX. SENSATIONALISM AND THE YELLOW PRESS
X. POPULAR LITERATURE AND THE MORES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX TO NAMES
SUBJECT INDEX