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Routledge
313 Pages
by
Routledge
313 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Helen MacGill Hughes
