How Audiences Rewrote the Script

Chapman, Jane L. (author) / Nuttall, Nick (author)

Journalism Today ; 247-271

2011-04-05

25 pages

9781405179539 , 9781444395372

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395372.ch12

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

how audiences rewrite scripts, idea of “countrymen” ‐ a single audience, highly contested territory , Michael Oriard in his book Reading Football ‐ drawing attention to coverage of (American) football, in the daily press of late nineteenth century , study of perfection, earliest magazines ‐ devoted to women, the London‐based Lady's Magazine (1770) , women, ethnic minorities and “working classes” ‐ laying claim to special treatment by society , a racing certainty, rise of the sporting press ‐ minority interests infiltrating the mainstream press , most sports, with their own monthly magazines ‐ as football's FourFourTwo and athletics' American Track and Field , New Journalism, whether Arnold's strictures or not ‐ inescapably bound up with notions of feminization of the press , needs of the masses, ignored by established organs of communication ‐ met by a journalism of “sensationalism” , Democracy in America (1831), Alexis de Tocqueville ‐ alleging that The inhabitants of the United States have, then, at present, no national literature , FactFile ‐ Le Petit Journal, a tabloid‐style newspaper ‐ published in Paris between 1863 and 1944