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1. FACTORIAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATION OF THE PRESS TO VOTING IN CHICAGO.

Author

Gosnell, Harold F. and Schmidt, Margaret J.

Subjects
PRESS, VOTING, ELECTIONS, POLITICAL candidates, MASS media
Abstract

The article presents a factorial analysis of the relation of the press to voting in Chicago, Illinois. It was possible to obtain for 47 selected areas in the city of Chicago information regarding the home coverage of the four leading daily newspapers. For the Republican primary elections (April, 1930 and February, 1931) the percentage of the total vote received by each of the leading candidates was used, and for the general elections the percentage of the total received by the Democratic candidates. The U.S. national dailies "Chicago Tribune" and the "Chicago Daily News" both opposed the Republican party in the Republican primary of 1931, endorsed the Democratic candidate for mayor in the final election, opposed the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt for the presidency, and endorsed the Democratic candidate for governor. Since the Republican candidate ran against the Democratic candidate in the mayoralty election, these two newspapers were consistently opposed to the Republican faction in state and local politics.

Published
1936
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2. Crime and Publicity.

Author

Lovett, Robert Morss

Subjects
CRIME, PUBLICITY, POLICE, MURDER, TEACHERS, STUDENTS, PRESS, MASS media
Abstract

Focuses on the relationship between the crime and publicity. Comment on the media reporting of a kidnapping-murder in Chicago, Illinois; Description of circumstances under which a boy named Robert Franks was kidnapped and murdered; Suspicion on some teachers in the school which the boy attended; Information on the background of those teachers; Examination of teachers by the police; Interests shared by Chicago morning papers with the police; Comment that the interest of the public in crime is not the healthy one of its suppression.

Published
1924