Balenciaga: Addressing misconceptions concerning his fashion press policies

This article interrogates the reputation, prevalent to this day, of Balenciaga as being anti-advertising and anti-media, according to some of his contemporary journalists as well as some of his employees and clients. The study contextualizes Balenciaga in the framework of the influence of the fashion press and the reality of the French couture licensing business in the North American fashion market from 1937 to 1968, his years on the international scene. Based on the analysis of the issues of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Women’s Wear Daily for the same period, the research demonstrates that the designer had not always been so scornful of the media. He really was a discreet man, but this does not mean he hated the press, as his designs often appeared in the most influential fashion magazines. The article argues that the negative view in the media’s perception of him was generalized after his veto to the press in January 1956 – a decision he took for business reasons – and was retroactively attributed to his entire professional life.

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‘The Irishman's Prize’: Views of Canada from the British Press, 1760–1774

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x00003319 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 575-596 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Philip Lawson

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

North American ◽

New France ◽

American Empire ◽

French Army ◽

The North ◽

The Press ◽

The Future ◽

British Press ◽

The City

This was how the Public Advertiser greeted the passage of the Quebec Act through parliament in June 1774. It was a remarkable transformation from the ecstasy evident in newspaper reports that greeted the fall of New France in 1760. As early as November 1759 the city of Nottingham singled out the North American campaign as the glorious core of British strategy. Its loyal address congratulated the king ‘particularly upon the defeat of the French army in Canada, and the taking of Quebec; an acquisition not less honourable to your majesty's forces, than destructive of the trade and commerce and power of France in North America’. What occurred in those fourteen years to produce such a stark revision of views on the conquest of New France? The answer can be found partly by surveying the English press for this period. During these years, treatment of Canadian issues in the press displayed quite distinct characteristics that revealed a whole range of attitudes and opinions on the place Canada held in the future of the North American empire. No consensus on this issue ever existed. Debate on Canada mirrored a wider discussion on the future of the polyglot empire acquired at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763. In ranged from the enthusiasm of officials at Westminster to spokesmen of a strain in English thinking that challenged the whole thrust of imperial policy to date.

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The Todd Duncan Affair: Acción Democrática and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Venezuela

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/1006969 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 441-459 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Winthrop R. Wright

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Racial Discrimination ◽

North American ◽

The United States ◽

Time Magazine ◽

News Magazine ◽

The North ◽

Racial Democracy ◽

The Press

In June, 1945, Time Magazine informed its readers that the North American singer, Robert Todd Duncan, had been refused accomodations by three prominent hotels in Caracas, Venezuela. This news, came as a shock to many Venezuelans who had considered their nation a racial democracy in which discrimination and prejudice did not exist. They felt doubly disturbed because a North American news magazine charged that the hotels had refused to admit Duncan, his wife, and his accompanist, William Allen, because of their race. They resented the fact that representatives of the press in the most racist society of the Americas accused Venezuelans of practicing racial discrimination of the sort found in the United States.

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O GOLPE DA MÍDIA: a crítica ao jornalismo no discurso de intelectuais

Revista Observatório ◽

10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2018v4n1p307 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 307

Author(s):

Christa Berger

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

Point Of View ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

The North ◽

Political Criticism ◽

Palabras Clave ◽

The Media

O texto parte do ponto de vista de que inúmeros intelectuais incorporam a crítica ao jornalismo ao analisarem a sociedade contemporânea. O acontecimento escolhido para observar a inserção da crítica às práticas na análise de intelectuais brasileiros é o processo que desembocou no impeachment da presidenta Dilma Roussef em junho de 2016. Três textos foram escolhidos como corpus da análise: o primeiro é uma entrevista com o norte-americano Glenn Greenwald pela revista Carta Capital; o segundo “A velha mídia, o golpe e o Fla-Flu que não houve”, de Ednei de Genaro e Robson Gabioneta, publicado no site Outras Palavras e, o último, o artigo “Informados e Inteligentes”, de Aderbal Freire Filho, publicado no livro A resistência ao golpe de 2016. A conclusão é de que, nesse caso, as críticas políticas não só incorporam informações oriundas da mídia como afirmam que o jornalismo teve papel indiscutível no processo do impeachment da presidenta. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Acontecimento; Crítica à prática jornalística; Intelectuais; Golpe. ABSTRACT This text starts from the point of view that intellectuals incorporate criticism to journalism when analyzing the contemporary society. The event chosen to observe this behavior of Brazilian intellectuals toward journalistic practices, is the process that led to impeachment President Dilma Roussef, in June, 2016. Three texts were chosen as analytical corpus: the first is an interview with the North-American Glenn Greenwald to Carta Capital magazine: the second one, named "The old media, the coup and the Fla-Flu that did not exist", by Ednei de Genaro and Robson Gabioneta, published in the website Outras Palabras and the last one, the article "Informed and Intelligent”, written by Aderbal Freire Filho, published in The Resistance to the Coup of 2016. The conclusion is that, in this case, political criticism not only incorporates information from the media but also asserts that journalism played an undisputed role in the process of impeachment of the President Dilma Roussef. KEYWORDS: Event; criticism of journalism practices; intellectuals; coup. RESUMEN El texto parte del punto de vista de que los intelectuales incorporan la crítica al periodismo cuando en sus análisis de la sociedad contemporánea. El acontecimiento escogido para observar la inserción de la crítica en el análisis de los intelectuales brasileños es el proceso que desembocó en el impedimento de la presidenta Dilma Rouseff en junio, 2016. Tres textos forman el corpus de análisis: el primero es una entrevista con el norte-americano Glenn Greenwald publicado en la revista Carta Capital; el segundo “A velha mídia, o golpe e o Fla-Flu que não houve”, de Ednei de Genaro y Robson Gabioneta, publicado en el sitio Outras Palavras; y el último, el artículo “Informados e Inteligentes”, de Aderbal Freire Filho, publicado en el libro A resistência ao golpe de 2016. La conclusión es que, en el caso de estudio, las críticas políticas no solo tomaron prestado las informaciones oriundas de los medios como afirman que el periodismo tuvo un rol indiscutible en el proceso de impedimento de la presidenta. PALABRAS CLAVE: Acontecimiento; crítica a la práctica periodística; intelectuales; golpe.

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The Chilean Press: 1823-1842

Journal of Inter-American Studies ◽

10.2307/165189 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 545-555 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Margaret V. Campbell

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

Colonial Period ◽

Santo Domingo ◽

The North ◽

The Press ◽

Late Start ◽

The Revolution

A backward glance, a thumbnail sketch of the Chilean press from the colonial period to 1823, sets the stage for the story of the press from 1823 to 1842. To begin with, Chile was off to a late start — 1747. Mexico had a press in 1540; Lima, 1584; Santo Domingo, 1600; and Paraguay, 1715. Second, the press was closely related with the struggle for independence. Foreign influences were felt through a number of colorful figures such as Mateo Arnaldo Hoevel, a Swedish refugee involved in the assassination of Gustave III, the North-American Procopio Polloc, and three North-American typesetters. Camilo Henríquez, a priest, was “the mentor of the revolution,” while the prócer, Bernardo O'Higgins, also played an important role.

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Working Women of Mexico

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/978437 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 167-172

Author(s):

Fanchón Royer

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

American Woman ◽

Working Women ◽

Career Women ◽

Large Measure ◽

The North ◽

The Press ◽

American Press ◽

Do So ◽

Working Woman

A foreign reader of the North American press inevitably receives the impression that the majority of our feminine citizens are breadwinners if not actual career women, and that the much-noted independence and aggression of the American woman is, in a large measure, based on this fact—that she is economically self-sufficient or could be so if it should become necessary through a marriage wrecked by death or divorce, or desirable for any other reason. A glance at the statistics, however, immediately proves that a maximum of no more than 14 percent of our women are constantly employed outside the home, though it must be granted that a larger proportion has worked before marriage and presumably could do so again. In any case, the total in no wise approaches that which might be deduced from the amount of attention that the American working woman receives in the press and films which, supposedly, reflect the American scene.

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Working Women of Mexico

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.1017/s0003161500031990 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 6 (02) ◽

pp. 167-172

Author(s):

Fanchón Royer

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

American Woman ◽

Working Women ◽

Career Women ◽

Large Measure ◽

The North ◽

The Press ◽

American Press ◽

Do So ◽

Working Woman

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CarrancistaPropaganda and the Print Media in the United States: An Overview of Institutions

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/1008260 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 155-174 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michael M. Smith

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

North American ◽

Mexican Revolution ◽

The United States ◽

Diplomatic Relations ◽

Woodrow Wilson ◽

The North ◽

The Press ◽

Key Sectors ◽

The Subject

Despite the voluminous body of historical literature devoted to the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and U.S.-Mexican diplomatic relations, few works address the subject of revolutionary propaganda. During this tumultuous era, however, factional leaders recognized the importance of justifying their movement, publicizing their activities, and cultivating favorable public opinion for their cause, particularly in the United States. In this regard, Venustiano Carranza was especially energetic. From the inception of his Constitutionalist revolution, Carranza and his adherents persistently attempted to exploit the press to generate support among Mexican expatriates, protect Mexican sovereignty, secure recognition from the administration of Woodrow Wilson, gain the acquiescence–if not the blessing–of key sectors of the North American public for his Constitutionalist program, enhance his personal image, and defend his movement against the criticism and intrigues of his enemies–both Mexican and North American.

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From Peripheral to Integral? A Digital-Born Journalism Not for Profit in a Time of Crises

Media and Communication ◽

10.17645/mac.v7i4.2269 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 92-102 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Alfred Hermida ◽

Mary Lynn Young

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

Economic Decline ◽

For Profit ◽

The North ◽

Not For Profit ◽

American Journalism ◽

The Media ◽

Multiple Domains

This article explores the role of peripheral actors in the production and circulation of journalism through the case study of a North American not-for-profit digital-born journalism organization, <em>The Conversation Canada</em>. Much of the research on peripheral actors has examined individual actors, focusing on questions of identity such as who is a journalist as opposed to emergent and complex institutions with multiple interventions in a time of field transition. Our study explores the role of what we term a ‘complex peripheral actor,’ a journalism actor that may operate across individual, organizational, and network levels, and is active across multiple domains of the journalistic process, including production, publication, and dissemination. This lens is relevant to the North American journalism landscape as digitalization has seen increasing interest in and growth of complex and contested peripheral actors, such as Google, Facebook, and Apple News. Results of this case study point to increasing recognition of <em>The Conversation Canada</em> as a legitimate journalism actor indicated by growing demand for its content from legacy journalism organizations experiencing increasing market pressures in Canada, in addition to demand from a growing number of peripheral journalism actors. We argue that complex peripheral actors are benefitting from changes occurring across the media landscape from economic decline to demand for free journalism content, as well as the proliferation of multiple journalisms.

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