National Scandal

Goat Castle ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Old South ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Press ◽  
Wild Man ◽  
National Media

This chapter explores the national media attention associated with this case. Because the case took place after the first pilgrimage of homes in Natchez, stark contrasts were made between the Old South and the gothic South represented by Dana, Dockery, and Glenwood. The press nicknamed Dana the “Wild Man,” Dockery as the “Goat Woman,” and Glenwood as “Goat Castle.” Descriptions of Goat Castle and photographs of the interior were shared nationwide, which caused journalists to make analogies with Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher.” The scandal was that the Old South Grandeur represented by the pilgrimage was a distraction from the squalor of Goat Castle.

scholarly journals Canada’s Beef with Lipstick: Eat or Be Eaten

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Marina Banister
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
City Council ◽  
Committee Chair ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
National Media ◽  
Youth Council ◽  
The City

In the summer of 2015 the City of Edmonton Youth Council proposed a motion to City Council to adopt solely vegetarian or vegan food for all catered meetings for the purpose of environmental sustainability. The motion garnered national media attention, starting with a focus on the motion itself, however quickly transformed into a story about sexism when the online reader commentary started to attack the Youth Council Committee Chair Marina Banister. This paper will analyze the backlash Banister received in the online commentary sections by breaking apart four articles from CBC News Edmonton, Yahoo News Canada, and the Edmonton Journal. The online comments written in reaction to news articles about Banister’s motion to City Council will be assessed in how they delegitimized her argument and undermined her political credibility. Ultimately the paper will conclude that the online comments focused on Banister which distracted from the motion itself and challenged her credibility as an expert on this issue.

Goat Castle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Cox
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
White Community ◽  
The Press ◽  
Wild Man ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
True Crime ◽  
The City ◽  
Jim Crow South

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery—known in the press as the “Wild Man” and the “Goat Woman”—enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage when it came to light that Dana and Dockery, the alleged murderers, shared their huge, decaying antebellum mansion with their goats and other livestock, which prompted journalists to call the estate “Goat Castle.” Pearls was killed by an Arkansas policeman in an unrelated incident before he could face trial. However, as was all too typical in the Jim Crow South, the white community demanded “justice,” and an innocent black woman named Emily Burns was ultimately sent to prison for the murder of Merrill. Dana and Dockery not only avoided punishment but also lived to profit from the notoriety of the murder by opening their derelict home to tourists. Strange, fascinating, and sobering, Goat Castle tells the story of this local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.

scholarly journals How Voters Punish and Donors Protect Legislators Embroiled in Scandal

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian T. Hamel ◽  
Michael G. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Sex Scandals ◽  
National Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Previous studies have largely overlooked three key components of a scandal that could determine how it shapes election outcomes: the extent to which it is covered in the media, the potential that donors respond differently than voters, and the likelihood that the impact of scandals have changed over time. Examining U.S. House scandals between 1980 and 2010, we find that while scandal-tainted politicians receive fewer votes and are less likely to win than otherwise similar legislators not embroiled in scandal, donors actually contribute more money to their campaigns after the scandal’s revelation. Both of these effects, however, are limited to financial and sex scandals that garnered national media attention. Moreover, we find that voters are less punitive and donors are even more supportive in the post-1994 period of nationalized electoral politics.

A Uniquely Punitive Turn? Sex Offenders and the Persistence of Punitive Sanctioning

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua C. Cochran ◽  
Elisa L. Toman ◽  
Ryan T. Shields ◽  
Daniel P. Mears
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sex Crimes ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Focal Attention ◽  
National Media ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Public Concerns ◽  
Over Time

Objectives: This article tests two theoretical ideas: (1) that social concerns about particular “dangerous classes” of offenders shift over time to influence court sanctioning practices and (2) that, since the 1990s, sex offenders in particular came to be viewed by courts as one such “dangerous class.” Methods: We examine sanctioning trends in Florida and compare punishment of sex offenders in earlier versus later parts of the get-tough era. We then examine whether sentencing is associated with rational criminal justice incentives (e.g., increasing seriousness or rates of sex crimes) or with shifting public concerns (e.g., increasing media attention to sexual violence). Results: Punitiveness increased for all crimes but especially for sex crimes. Punitiveness appears not to be driven by increasing seriousness or rates of crime, but does appear to be partially driven by increasing national media attention to sexual violence. Conclusions: The findings support arguments that sex offenders were subjected to a uniquely punitive turn in sanctioning and that courts are sensitive to shifting public concerns. The results advance theoretical arguments developed by Gottschalk and earlier work that suggests that the persistence of get-tough era sentencing practices may be driven in part through focal attention to select types of offenders.

In the Press Box

2018 ◽  
pp. 152-178
Author(s):  
William W. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Press ◽  
Work Routines ◽  
National Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Sports Coverage

Professional sports are among the most highly mediated areas of modern life. Baseball is at the center of sports coverage in Japan throughout the year, and the Tigers are followed by a huge corps of newspaper reporters and photographers and television and radio broadcasters and commentators. The chapter details the work routines and career paths of these media professionals. The most important of the Hanshin sports media are the five daily sports papers, which combine the exuberance of tabloid storytelling with the expertise of fulltime teams of highly knowledgeable reporters, editors, photographers, and commentators. Unlike the Hanshin Tigers’ main rival, the Yomiuri Giants, whose parent company is one of the largest media companies in the world, the Hanshin company lacks its own media company that it can control. Hanshin finds itself in a deeply problematical codependency with the regional and national media, and this Faustian bargain is analyzed in the chapter.

Media’s portrayal of CAM: Exploring 40 years of narratives and meanings in public discourse

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492098540
Author(s):  
Emilia H Lopera-Pareja ◽  
Lorena Cano-Orón
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Tone Language ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Alternative Medicines ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media

The media are a key element in being able to assess how the climate of public opinion regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) has evolved over the years. The aim of this study is to explore the variation of the media representations along 40 years (1979–2018) in Spanish newspapers to assess if the press has contributed to legitimise, delegitimise or maintain the status quo of these therapies. From quantitative and qualitative approaches, we evaluate the media attention, the narratives, linguistic terms and tone used, and the relations between them. Results indicate the media reporting on CAM has remained relatively stable during the first 37 years (1979–2015) of the study, but in the last 3 years a radical change has been observed in media attention, tone, language and arguments used. Media representations of this issue evolves from a period of low media attention (1979–2015), in which CAM was legitimised, to another period of high media attention (2016–2018), in which CAM was delegitimised.

The Rose reviewed: a comedy(?) of errors

Antiquity ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (241) ◽  
pp. 753-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Biddle
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Rose ◽  
Rose Theatre

The identification, partial excavation, and covering-up again of the Rose Theatre in London this summer roused public interest unparalleled since the discovery of the Temple of Mithras 35 years ago. How is it that the future of an archaeological site of such importance has still to be resolved under threat in a flurry of direct action, injunctions, and media attention? Martin Biddle was almost the only archaeologist not directly involved who was prepared publicly to explore the issues in the press and on radio and television. Here he sets out his views of the lessons of the Rose.

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