Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall
Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall New media are often greeted with suspicion by older media. Vaudevilles and comedies ask whether journalism that benefits from advertisement can be unbiased. The…
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Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall
New media are often greeted with suspicion by older media. Vaudevilles and comedies ask whether journalism that benefits from advertisement can be unbiased. The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall explores how, when the commercial press arrived in France in 1836, popular theater critiqued its corruption, its diluted politics, and its tendency to orient its content toward the lowest common denominator.July Monarchy plays, which provided affordable entertainment to a broad section of the public, constitute a large, nearly untapped reservoir of commentary on the arrival of the forty-franc press.
Hollinshead-Strick uses both plays and novels to show that despite their claims to enlighten their readers, newspapers were often accused of obscuring public access to Dramas explore whether threatening to spread false news is an acceptable way for journalists to exercise their influence.