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Sensational News: The Rise of Lurid Journalism in America, 1830-1930

By Jeremy Agnew
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By Jeremy Agnew
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Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment. Readers have been frightened, revolted, yet fascinated by stories of death, thievery, kidnapping, murder, rape, scandal, love triangles, and colorful miscreants. Starting in the 1830s this morbid interest in lurid stories fueled the unprecedented growth of sensationalist newspapers that titillated and shocked their many readers.

This study of sensationalism describes how newspa...

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