Wednesday, January 12, 2005
"Sobering News"
This here is the Erudite Redneck's proposal for a presentation at “The Five Civilized Tribes: Two Centuries of Growth and Change,” Oklahoma Historical Society Annual Meeting, Muskogee, Okla., April, 2005:
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“Sobering News: Choctaw Temperance Reporting Foreshadows Advocacy Journalism”
Temperance gave the Choctaw Telegraph (1849) and Choctaw Intelligencer (1850-1852) a platform for what the late twentieth century would call advocacy journalism. The approach was more than reporting seasoned with opinion or opinion peppered with news, both of which pioneers could find in other frontier newspapers. Often, a frontier newspaper with a “cause” concentrated on its pet issue to the exclusion of all others. The Telegraph and Intelligencer, two of Oklahoma’s earliest American Indian newspapers, gave their readers something that would not become common for more than a century: general-circulation newspapers that overtly promoted a core set of values.
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We'll see whether the powers that be will let me on the program. I have command of the editorial content of every existing issue of those two newspapers, as well as the broader historical context of the times.
Some who know me might find it ironic that ol' ER has any expertise in anything related to temperance. Well, pbththt. :-)
--ER
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“Sobering News: Choctaw Temperance Reporting Foreshadows Advocacy Journalism”
Temperance gave the Choctaw Telegraph (1849) and Choctaw Intelligencer (1850-1852) a platform for what the late twentieth century would call advocacy journalism. The approach was more than reporting seasoned with opinion or opinion peppered with news, both of which pioneers could find in other frontier newspapers. Often, a frontier newspaper with a “cause” concentrated on its pet issue to the exclusion of all others. The Telegraph and Intelligencer, two of Oklahoma’s earliest American Indian newspapers, gave their readers something that would not become common for more than a century: general-circulation newspapers that overtly promoted a core set of values.
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We'll see whether the powers that be will let me on the program. I have command of the editorial content of every existing issue of those two newspapers, as well as the broader historical context of the times.
Some who know me might find it ironic that ol' ER has any expertise in anything related to temperance. Well, pbththt. :-)
--ER
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Erudite Redneck-
Came across your blog today. Good stuff. Liked the material you dug up about Iba.
Noticed you were a college basketball fan. Hoping you could kindly add a blogroll link to my College Basketball Blog, http://collegeball.blogspot.com. I'd greatly appreciate a link on your site.
And would gladly return the favor, adding a link from my site to yours.
Thanks kindly!
Yoni Cohen, College Basketball Blog
http://collegeball.blogspot.com
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Came across your blog today. Good stuff. Liked the material you dug up about Iba.
Noticed you were a college basketball fan. Hoping you could kindly add a blogroll link to my College Basketball Blog, http://collegeball.blogspot.com. I'd greatly appreciate a link on your site.
And would gladly return the favor, adding a link from my site to yours.
Thanks kindly!
Yoni Cohen, College Basketball Blog
http://collegeball.blogspot.com
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