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The Southern Press suggests that the South's journalism struck a literary pose closer to the older English press than to the democratic penny press or bourgeois magazines of the urban North. The Southern journalist was more likely to be a Romantic and an intellectual. The region's journalism was personal, colorful, and steeped in the classics. News was less important than narrative. Neither 'public' nor 'opinion' had much meaning in a racially segregated South. Paradoxically, it was this nonreformist literary tradition that produced liberal southern editors, from Henry Grady to Ralph McGill, who were viewed in the North as both explainers of and dissidents from the South.

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Author:   Doug Cumming ,  Hodding Carter ,  David Abrahamson
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9780810123946

ISBN 10:   0810123940
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 May 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Doug Cumming is an assistant professor of journalism at Washington and Lee University, a former Nieman Fellow, and a George Polk Award - winning journalist.

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