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On Foreign Soil: Reporting The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
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Course / Degree: Mass Communication
Institution / University: California State University, Northridge, United States
Published in: 2004
The Mexican-American War produced the first identifiable war correspondents and coincided with technological advances in printing and distribution, including the printing press, telegraph, steamship, mail, and pony express. Distribution of war news was aided by the rise of cooperative news gathering in the United States. The advent of popular journalism and the “penny press” satisfied the public demand for eyewitness accounts of the battles. New Orleans became the communications and supply hub for the nation’s war effort, and the city’s leading penny press newspapers, the Picayune and the Delta, sent the three most important eyewitness reporters to the front: George Wilkins Kendall and Christopher M. Haile for the Picayune, and James L. Freaner for the Delta. U.S. actions before and during the war reflected popular American perceptions of Mexicans. Slavery dominated domestic discussion of the war, which not only planted the seeds of the Civil War, but also became the most significant taking of land in the short history of the United States.
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Mexican-American War, war correspondents, penny press
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Submission Details: Thesis Abstract submitted by Manley Witten from United States on 18-Mar-2005 19:17.
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Manley Witten Contact Details: Email: manley.witten@csun.edu
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