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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars (originale 2011; edizione 2011)di Paul Collins, William Dufris (Narratore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars di Paul Collins (2011)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. true crime is my guilty secret-but when it is well done, it is as good as any fiction. This was really well done. You get a sense of the time, the society, the role that newspapers played in making the news instead of just reporting it. Really enjoyed ( ) It is ironic to think that our day and age of social media and headline stories and appeal is any different than the news that existed much earlier; it's just that the mechanisms and sources of that news are expanded and more diverse. But, people were interested in sensationalized stories long before our modern age. In The Murder of the Century, Paul Collins reminds us that our collective penchant for coverage of sensational crimes is ageless. His book covers the details of a grisly murder in NYC which occurred in 1897. While the murder, how it was solved, and details of the trial were excellent, the involvement of the newsmen of the time was as much a part of the story. As opposed to our current access to 24-hour cable TV coverage, newspapers were the medium which filled people's insatiable need for crime story details at the beginning of the 20th Century. In that competitive world of newspapers, getting the news out early was key. How the reporters gathered their information, and the competition between the biggest names in the NY newspaper business, Pulitzer and Hearst, plays a significant role in the book. It was interesting to see, in that incipient stage of "yellow journalism", how important reporters were in both crime scene investigations, and in creating news if need be. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era's most baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hell's Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio, a hard luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor, all raced to solve the crime. What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim whom the police couldn't identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasn't even dead. This book is a tale of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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