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A Newspaper's Choice
DIR By: Kattrup
Date: December 21, 2025, 12:48 pm
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Saw this article, describing a newish newspaper? hiring an
experienced European journalist. Not sure who it might be.
However, the main relevance is the way a newspaper could choose
various ways of reporting the case. The editors consciously
shaped the newspapers' reporting of the murder - something to
keep in mind, whenever we discuss the minutiae and wording in
certain articles, for instance why some remarks or names or
incidents are mentioned only in one or two papers, or only in
out of state papers, or similar question.
The newspapers' editorial policy had a defining influence.
From NY Tribune, June 29 1891:
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Re: A Newspaper's Choice
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: December 21, 2025, 2:12 pm
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Somewhere on the boards, I think, is an article in which the
newspaper ( not sure which city at the moment ) expressed its
position on not covering the Brown murder.
Nice find, Pete.
Actually, this is it. It was an irate citizen.
From a column in the July 4th Evening Star.
This New Yorker expressed his displeasure at
the press containing so much case coverage.
The grumpy fart lived at 43 West 105th Street in Manhattan.
I found him in the 1891 NYC City Directory.
Washington Evening Star
July 4, 1891
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Re: A Newspaper's Choice
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: December 22, 2025, 5:40 am
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To date, I have yet to find a newspaper that was sympathetic to
the female witnesses. For the most part,
even Carrie Brown was disparaged in the press, in New York City
and elsewhere.
That's understandable, in a way, since the universal standard
of the times demonized whoring, particularly
as practiced by women of the lower economic classes, more often
than not blaming the women's plight on a lack of
will, or their unnatural desires, rather than the circumstances
that led to their choices. Even so, you'd think one or
two would cut the girls a break.
Some other trivia.....
James Jennings was a leader in an Uptown ( Manhattan )
church.
Unless I've overlooked other newspaper reports with this
statement included, the only Manhattan newspaper that
published that line was the New York World, on April 25th, 1891.
Eight other newspapers outside Manhattan referred to
Jennings as a 'leader in an uptown church'. All were
north of New York ( Montreal:1, Ottawa:2, Buffalo:4,
Rochester:1).....April 24-May 31, 1891.
The East River Hotel was known as the 'House of All Drinks'.
The only Manhattan paper that I can find that referred to the
hotel as the House of All Drinks was the New York Tribune, on
April 26, 1891.
I located over 100 newspapers outside of the state of New York
that referred to the Hotel by that nickname.
Only three newspapers in three other cities within the state of
New York referred to the hotel by its nickname, along with its
proper
name. Those cities are Buffalo, Rome, and Rochester.
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Re: A Newspaper's Choice
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: December 28, 2025, 5:59 am
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However, the main relevance is the way a newspaper could choose
various ways of reporting the case...
Pete Damgaard, 12/21/2025, earlier on the thread.
One of the issues we've always had is how much 'creative
license' and outright fabrications the press undertook in
the city tabloids. Almost all bylines came from New York
City....and it was a competitive market.
Just a couple of examples.....
*The World claimed to have been responsible for George Damon's
'coming out' in 1901.
*The Herald published the remark that Jenalli was Frenchy #2.
Without elaborating too much,
the same Herald referred to Jenalli in glowing terms, terms that
no one would refer to Frenchy #2
by. He most certainly was not the man who was seen with Ali in
the Lower East Side.
*The July 5, 1891 World article featuring one of their reporters
who had spent the night in the ERH. Nothing wrong
with that, but our reporter guest claimed to have written in the
register.
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