Crying the NewsPub Date : 2019-10-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0006
V. DiGirolamo
{"title":"Disorder in the Air","authors":"V. DiGirolamo","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Newsboys proliferated after the Civil War as the newspaper industry flourished but then reemerged as a social problem during the depression years of 1873 to 1877. Writers and artists such as Horatio Alger and J. G. Brown portrayed them as symbols of the uplifting potential of industrial capitalism, while white southerners turned them into emblems of Republican misrule. The New York press celebrated real Bowery newsboys such as Steve Brodie. But authors of sensational urban guidebooks cast these youths as enfants terribles whose discontents threatened the social order. Swept up in the burgeoning labor movement, newsboys mounted noisy strikes in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Nashville, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, and Baltimore. Catholic and Protestant philanthropists responded by founding homes for newsboys or advocating that they be licensed and supervised. Contrary to their mythic counterparts, real newsboys exposed and challenged the economic inequities of Gilded Age America.","PeriodicalId":284203,"journal":{"name":"Crying the News","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132574622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crying the NewsPub Date : 2019-10-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0003
V. DiGirolamo
{"title":"Voice of Young America","authors":"V. DiGirolamo","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"With their distinctive dress, speech, and style, newsboys formed one the most conspicuous youth subcultures in early America. Predominately Irish, they also earned reputations as brawlers, gamblers, and consummate theatergoers. The era’s most prominent artists, writers, and performers transformed them into symbols of Young America itself and drew them into campaigns to promote temperance, nativism, westward expansion, and war with Mexico. More than any other personification of the age, newsboys represented the liberating potential of a democratic society driven by a wide-open market economy. Yet they also epitomized the bamboozlement of mass politics and the sham of self-interest masquerading as concern for the greater good. Their shrill cries and saucy ways alternately annoyed and amused their elders, but these incorrigible habits also helped them to survive the hardships of street life.","PeriodicalId":284203,"journal":{"name":"Crying the News","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129510764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crying the NewsPub Date : 2019-10-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0015
V. DiGirolamo
{"title":"Son of the Forgotten Man","authors":"V. DiGirolamo","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"The Great Depression exposed newsboys to the vicissitudes of the market and the power of the state in new ways. They formed unions, joined strikes, and, for a time, came under federal protection. Publishers argued that newsboys were not employees but independent contractors who should be exempt the Fair Labor Standards Act and other New Deal measures. Caught up in this tug-of-war between a paternalistic capitalist press and an expansive welfare state, the American newsboy became a contested figure in popular culture, appearing in WPA murals, proletarian novels, and other works as a symbol of working-class resentment more than as an icon of bourgeois virtue. The shrill, restless son of the Forgotten Man, he helped America reassess the merits of laissez faire capitalism and recalibrate government’s responsibility to citizens young and old.","PeriodicalId":284203,"journal":{"name":"Crying the News","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114671432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crying the NewsPub Date : 2019-09-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0005
V. DiGirolamo
{"title":"Battle Cries","authors":"V. DiGirolamo","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195320251.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Newsboys were among the few civilians who regularly crossed back and forth between home front and battlefront during the Civil War. They were at the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, as well as in prisoner of war camps. In supplying soldiers and sailors with the latest intelligence, newsboys did not just satisfy their hankering for news, but stimulated a feeling of unity and common purpose among combatants in distant theaters of war. Some boys profited handsomely from their work; others lost their lives to it. But all were instrumental in conveying the hazards and fortunes of war to their fellow citizens. Northern newsboys also participated in the New York City draft riots and resisted the wartime repression of Copperhead newspapers. Consequently, they were exposed as war profiteers, arrested as smugglers, and executed as spies. Their experiences illuminate the war’s impact on working-class families and the heightened symbolic power of youth during times of national crisis.","PeriodicalId":284203,"journal":{"name":"Crying the News","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132704205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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