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Journalism in the Civil War Era

2010· article· en· W1533562785 on OpenAlex
Nancy McKenzie Dupont

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJournalismSpanish Civil WarTheme (computing)NarrativeHistoryMedia studiesLawSociologyClassicsLiteraturePolitical scienceArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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Bulla, David W., and Gregory A. Borchard. Journalism in the Civil War Era. New York: Peter Lang, 2010. 256 pp. $89.95. Because the Civil War was the worst event in American history, resulting in more than 600,000 military deaths, one would expect library shelves to be filled with books on how the war was covered by the press. They are not. In fact, there are only a handful of books dealing with the press and the war as a whole, and fewer are considered definitive works. For that reason, any new entry into the field of Civil War journalism history is met with much anticipation. It is indeed good news if a new book makes a significant contribution to the field. Journalism in the Civil War by David W. Bulla and Gregory A. Borchard is just that. It is organized into disparate chapters each dealing with a specific theme. This is not a book to be picked up and read from start to finish; the reader should not expect a seamless progression. Rather, it can be used to find information on specific topics, making it a resource that will be held on to and kept close at hand for many years. All of the chapters are important and interesting to the journalism history researcher, and several make a significant contribution to the field. Much has been written about Horace Greeley, but seldom has his work been brought together in such an enlightening narrative as in chapter three, Bully Pulpit: Horace Greeley's New York Tribune!' The authors delve into his personality and belief system and put into context his relationship with Abraham Lincoln. The authors also shed light on his editorial, Prayer of Twenty Millions, by examining where it came from and what it meant. They demonstrate that his participation in the failed 1 864 peace mediation in Canada, designed by Lincoln to calm Greeley's rhetoric, made him even more convinced that he alone had the solution to the protracted war, which led to even more feuding with the president that is expertly described by the authors. The reader comes away with a deeper understanding of the influential and often conflicted editor. Journalism historians have often pondered whether readership demands or technological change are the primary drivers in shifts in news delivery models. The major technological developments affecting journalism during the Civil War period are dealt with in chapter five, Journalistic Practice and Technological Change. This chapter alone would classify this book as a major contribution to the understanding of Civil War journalism. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.797
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it