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Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of
Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901-88) dabbled in semipro baseball and
boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing
sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of
boxing, baseball, and racing in Pittsburgh and beyond, Rooney is
best remembered for his contribution to the NFL, in particular to
the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team he founded in 1933. As Rooney led
the team in the early years, he came to be known as football's
greatest loser; his influence, however, was instrumental in making
the NFL the best-run league in American pro sports. The authors
show how Rooney saw professional football--and the
Steelers--through the Depression, World War II, the ascension of
TV, and the development of the NFL. The book also follows him
through the Steelers' dynasty years under Rooney's sons, with four
Super Bowl titles in the 1970s alone. The first authoritative look
at one of the most iconic figures in the history of the NFL, this
book is both a critical chapter in the story of football in America
and a thoroughly engaging in-depth introduction to a character
unlike any other in the annals of American sports.
Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of
Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901-88) dabbled in semipro baseball and
boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing
sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of
boxing, baseball, and racing in Pittsburgh and beyond, Rooney is
best remembered for his contribution to the NFL, in particular to
the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team he founded in 1933. As Rooney led
the team in the early years, he came to be known as football's
greatest loser; his influence, however, was instrumental in making
the NFL the best-run league in American pro sports. The authors
show how Rooney saw professional football--and the
Steelers--through the Depression, World War II, the ascension of
TV, and the development of the NFL. The book also follows him
through the Steelers' dynasty years under Rooney's sons, with four
Super Bowl titles in the 1970s alone. The first authoritative look
at one of the most iconic figures in the history of the NFL, this
book is both a critical chapter in the story of football in America
and a thoroughly engaging in-depth introduction to a character
unlike any other in the annals of American sports.
As immigration, technological change, and globalization reshape the
world, journalism plays a central role in shaping how the public
adjusts to moral and material upheaval. This, in turn, raises the
ethical stakes for journalism. In short, reporters have a choice in
the way they tell these stories: They can spread panic and
discontent or encourage adaptation and reconciliation. In Murder in
Our Midst, Romayne Smith Fullerton and Maggie Jones Patterson
compare journalists' crime coverage decisions in North America and
select Western European countries as a key to examine culturally
constructed concepts like privacy, public, public right to know,
and justice. Drawing from sample news coverage, national and
international codes of ethics and style guides, and close to 200
personal interviews with news professionals and academics, they
highlight differences in crime news reporting practices and
emphasize how crime stories both reflect and shape each nation's
attitudes in unique ways. Murder in Our Midst is both an empirical
look at varying journalistic styles and an ethical evaluation of
whether particular story-telling approaches do or do not serve the
practice of democracy.
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