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Journalism in the Civil War Era (Second Edition) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Journalism in the Civil War Era (Second Edition) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Mediating American History, 8
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Journalism in the Civil War Era presents the historical context of
Civil War journalism-placing the press of the era within the entire
nineteenth century. It gives a broad account of journalism in the
Civil War, reflecting on the political, military, legal, and
journalistic issues involved in this era. It is written with
chapters that examine these various facets of the journalism of the
period, but they are connected by the theme of the development of
the wartime press, with an emphasis on the professional, political,
social, economic, legal, and military factors that affected it. It
provides: An in-depth look at the political press in the 1850s and
1860s, and how it played a major role in the nation's understanding
of the conflict; Technology's role in carrying information in a
timely fashion; The development of journalism as a profession; The
international context of Civil War journalism; The leadership
journalists displayed, including Horace Greeley and his New York
Tribune bully pulpit; The nature of journalism during the war; The
way freedom of the press was advanced by polarizing political
extremes. The work is historical, written in an engaging style, and
meant to encourage readers to explore and analyze the value of
freedom of the press during that very time when it most comes under
fire-wartime. "Bulla and Borchard's analysis of newspapers during
the Civil War era shows that this was a transformative time for the
press and a perilous time for the relationship between government
and the press. The authors argue effectively that 'the media that
emerged [from the first Modern War] laid the foundation for modern
news."-David B. Sachsman, West Chair of Excellence and Director of
the Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and
Free Expression, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga "Bulla and
Borchard have produced what has been long needed in the study of
U.S. Civil War journalism: a social and cultural history of the
American press that goes beyond anecdotal accounts of war news.
They explore the nature of the Civil War-era press itself in all
its strengths and weaknesses, ranging from political and economic
grandstanding and over-the-top verbal grandiloquence to the sheer
bravery and determination of a number of editors, publishers, and
journalists who viewed their tasks as interpreters and informers of
the day's news. Using a mix of carefully selected case studies as
well as an extensive study of newspapers both large and small, this
highly readable work places the Civil War press squarely where it
belongs-as a part of the larger social and cultural experience of
mid-nineteenth century America."-Mary M. Cronin, Department of
Journalism, New Mexico State University "The study of Civil War
journalism has traditionally been treated as a facet of the history
of war correspondence, but war reporting does not exist in a
vacuum, as David Bulla and Gregory Borchard skillfully show readers
in their latest edition of Journalism in the Civil War Era. This
new edition freshens the book's original version by expanding on
their insightful examination of the way the American Civil War
ushered in the greater reliance on the information model of
journalism, which would exist side-by-side with the existing
partisan model. Few scholars have attempted the sort of holistic
study that examines not only the nature of Civil War journalism
but, more significantly, the symbiotic relationship between the
press and its culture. Bulla and Borchard have done the hard work
of digging out the necessary evidence to paint a full-color
portrait of journalism during America's bloodiest conflict."-Debbie
van Tuyll, Professor Emerita, Department of Communications, Augusta
University
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