The newspaperman and the tabloid: recovering the history of Philip H. Daniels and «Justice Weekly»
Bibliographic record
Abstract
/Justice Weekly/ was a tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Canada, from 1946 to 1972. Like other postwar English-language tabloids, it contained police and court news, horse racing information, and an oppositional orientation to the mainstream press. However, under publisher-editor Philip H. Daniels, it also published content that broke new ground in terms of sexuality and culture. This dissertation is concerned with the biography of Daniels, who alone built and shaped the tabloid, and the previously unexplored history of /Justice Weekly/. Daniels borrowed from the past to create a newspaper with radical—if not necessarily politically progressive—elements; this dissertation examines three of those elements. First, letters to the editor in /Justice Weekly/ were primarily stories of corporal punishment, which resembled centuries-old erotic flagellation fiction and correspondence. Second, the tabloid’s column of personal advertisements came to be occupied by individuals with marginalized sexual desires, such as sadomasochism and mate-swapping. Third, Daniels revived an early method of newsgathering—that is, exchanges with other periodicals—to republish writing by two groups far outside of the social mainstream: prison inmates and homosexuals. At the same time, Daniels constructed a morally conservative editorial stance that was at odds with his paper’s pioneering content. While the Canadian tabloid press has received some scholarly attention, little has been paid specifically to /Justice Weekly/. While Daniels’s paper has been characterized (and dismissed) as a sleazy scandal sheet, archival research and textual analysis show it to be significant in the history of postwar print culture and sexuality in Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".