Tulloch, John (2006) The privatising of pain: Lincoln newspapers, “mediated publicness” and the end of public execution. Journalism studies, 7 (3). pp. 437-451. ISSN 1469-9699
Full content URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616700600680922
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
Press coverage of crime and punishment was central to the development of mid-Victorian journalism and extensive coverage of murder trials and public executions was a staple of middle-class newspapers. This article explores the tensions between traditional frameworks for reporting “rituals of retribution”, class-based codes of civility and squeamishness, and the emergence of early modern styles of fact-based and empathic newspaper reporting in the handling by Lincolnshire newspapers of the first private execution in the county, in 1868, when journalists were enlisted as “witnesses” on behalf of the “public”
| Additional Information: | Press coverage of crime and punishment was central to the development of mid-Victorian journalism and extensive coverage of murder trials and public executions was a staple of middle-class newspapers. This article explores the tensions between traditional frameworks for reporting “rituals of retribution”, class-based codes of civility and squeamishness, and the emergence of early modern styles of fact-based and empathic newspaper reporting in the handling by Lincolnshire newspapers of the first private execution in the county, in 1868, when journalists were enlisted as “witnesses” on behalf of the “public” |
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| Keywords: | Crime, Journalists, Provincial press, Middle classes, Public execution |
| Subjects: | P Mass Communications and Documentation > P500 Journalism V Historical and Philosophical studies > V321 Local History |
| Divisions: | College of Arts > School of English & Journalism > School of English & Journalism (Journalism) |
| ID Code: | 652 |
| Deposited On: | 22 Jun 2007 |
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