Reporting the Great Railroad Strike How Ideology Shaped the News /

Reporting the Great Railroad Strike [electronic resource] : How Ideology Shaped the News / John Coward.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, a national catastrophe and the major news story of the year, was the first national labor strike in U.S. history. Because of the ideological bias of the press, specifically its implicit commitment to capitalism and to objectivity (itself a "myth" of socia...

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Main Author: Coward, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987.
Subjects:
Conservatism.
Content Analysis.
Cultural Influences.
Editorials.
Ideology.
Labor Problems.
Mass Media Effects.
News Writing.
Newspapers.
Persuasive Discourse.
Political Attitudes.
Political Influences.
Political Socialization.
Press Opinion.
Public Opinion.
Social Change.
Social Values.
Strikes.
United States History.

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