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Mediation and media; change and reaction. The story so far: journalism. 17 th c for a brief period, then clamp down Early 18 th c in new social and political order: change and reaction: stability after 17 th c Public sphere Magazines Addison and commerce: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Mediation and media; change and reaction
The story so far: journalism
• 17th c for a brief period, then clamp down• Early 18th c in new social and political order:
change and reaction: stability after 17th c– Public sphere– Magazines– Addison and commerce:
• Mercantilist capitalism with public debt– Sam Johnson:
• Grub Street• Paternoster Row
The story so far: London
• Roman north of the river• City (Money and trade), Westminster (law and
government), Southwark (rock and roll)• Sucking people in• The new City rebuilt after Great Fire• Centre of national capital flows• Great port
The story so far: your points
• The individual and Addison• Blue Plaques• Travel: Johnson quote• The importance of place and time• Communicate content to the “you” in the
reader
The story so far: PR
• Fashion + celebrities• Crafting the story for the brand• Getting the spin on the dress
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
• Reason and emotion• From a radical family• Impact of the change of the first phase of the
French Revolution– Formation of left and right– A republic– A rational state– Rights of people
Hazlitt
• To essay: to assay – the way up• Radical and romantic poets• Remained a radical• On utilitalirans: Bentham’s view is like a map, correct in
its form but without colour and relief• Attack on Tories: A Tory is...• In death: “He lived to see his deepest wishes gratified as
he expressed them in his Essay ‘On the Fear of Death.’ Viz.: ‘To see the downfall of the Bourbons and some prospect of good to mankind.”
London
• The docking facilities of the City were at breaking point and there was a lot of pilfering.
• West India merchants proposed new docks east of London in 1793.
• Construction started 1799; finished 1806• High profits and spread London out east
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London population
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Dickens
• Household Words etc• Observed the impact of the industrial
revolution: Hard Times 1854– The reaction to the industrial revolution– The Great Exhibition 1851
• Observed life in London: Oliver Twist 1838• Told the rising middle class in his journalism
“something must be done”• Novels as journalism: chapters published in
magazines
Imperial London
• 1858 First trans-Atlantic cable: broke after a month
• London: the capital and the manufacturing:– Cable made in London: Greenwhich– Great Eastern: London– The Victorian Internet– Coordinate empire
Crimean war: 1854-1856
• Ottoman Empire (Turkey) crumbling• Russia expanding west, south and east• UK, France & Turkey v Russia• Fought in north of Black Sea• Telegraph line from Marseilles
Crimea coverage
• William Howard Russell (1820-1907) The Times
• The Battle of Balaclava in The Times 14 November 1854 in The Mammoth Book of Journalism
• “Valour..versus a savage and barbarian enemy.”
• Reporter as observer: I saw this...
Crimea coverage
• “And now occurred the melancholy catastrophe which fills us all with sorrow”
• A table of losses ends the piece• Went on to report Indian Mutiny, US Civil
War, Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and Zulu War.
• The Times: 700,000 circulation
• Committed observer: “a savage and barbarian enemy”…. “under my own eyes”…. “A braver soldier than Capt Nolan the army did not possess.”
• Writing for the elite as literacy low and price high
• Changed policy on hospitals and war• Also image reporting...
London Illustrated News:1842-1989
Not a Profession
• Entry criteria: you can do it and you are cheap• Discipline: from the employer/editor• Exit: fired• Managed to make themselves professions in
the 19th century:– Doctors– Dentists– Civil engineers etc
The ethic
• Doctors: do not harm• Lawyers: represent your client• Journalists: get the story; entertain• PRs: represent your client’s best interests
George Newnes (1851-1910)
George Newnes 1851-1910
• Congregationalist, Midlands, Liberal, Philanthropist
• Tit-Bits 1881, moved to London 1885• The Strand 1891-1950• The Million 1892• Country Life 1897• Wide World Magazine 1898-1965• Ladies’ Field 1898
The Strand 1891 - 1950• Middle and lower upper
class: “confirmed their values and fostered and celebrated their achievements” Jackson George Newnes Ashgate 2001 p88
• Monthly: 6d (£1.96 RPI)• Short stories, reporting,
profiles, interviews, humour
• A-political; status quo
• “An editorial bias in favour of the timeless as against the timely” Pound, Mirror of the Century, Heinemann, 1966, p64
• The social space of upper-middle class literary world Jackson p102
• 300K copies of 1st issue: 400K by 1896
The Strand
• Mary Spencer-Warren• Subjects: Royalty, Royal
Palaces and the upper classes
• Regular contributor
The Strand 1891 - 1950• Middle and lower upper
class: “confirmed their values and fostered and celebrated their achievements” Jackson George Newnes Ashgate 2001 p88
• Monthly: 6d (£1.96 RPI)• Short stories, reporting,
profiles, interviews, humour
• A-political; status quo
• “An editorial bias in favour of the timeless as against the timely” Pound, Mirror of the Century, Heinemann, 1966, p64
• The social space of upper-middle class literary world Jackson p102
• 300K copies of 1st issue: 400K by 1896
Wide World Magazine 1898-1965Truth is stranger than fiction
Wednesday
• Frontline Club• 13 Norfolk Place, W2• Paddington