1. THE PRIVATISING OF PAIN.
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Tulloch, John
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REPORTERS & reporting , *PUBLISHING , *MURDER trials , *NEWSPAPERS , *PERIODICALS , *MASS media , *JOURNALISM - 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”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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