Froth and Scum Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium |
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| Author:
| Tucher, Andie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-4472-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1994 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $42.50USD $42.50 |
Book Description:
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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. In Froth and Scum, Andie Tucher explores - and explodes - the notion that'objective' reporting will discover a single, definitive truth.
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. In Froth and Scum, Andie Tucher explores - and explodes - the notion that'objective' reporting will discover a single, definitive truth.