The Deepest Scandal In The 1920's

The 1920s was an age of drastic social and political changes. For the first time in history, more Americans started living in cities rather than on farms. Americans were wealthier than ever before. People from coast to coast bought similar goods, listened to the same music, did the same dances, and even used related slang. Numerous Americans were uncomfortable with this unfamiliar, urban, and occasionally racy “mass culture”. In fact, for a large number of people in the United States, the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. However, for a minuscule handful of youth in the nation’s larger cities, the 1920s were roaring. Prohibition gave criminals a way to illegally make money; gangsters, young men who worked in criminal gangs, began selling on the black-market alcohol. Young woman emerged during the 1920s with different appearance, attitude, and behavior; with a bobbed haircut and short skirts.

It is not always easy to look someone in the face and address their faults. Yet, Clare Booth Luce’s introduction of her speech is straight to the point and effective through her appeals to ethos and pathos as well as various tones to do just that. The purpose of her speech is to criticize the tendency of the American Press to sacrifice their journalistic integrity in favor of the public demand for sensationalist stores. In a number of ways, Luce is successful in setting up her speech’s message and working towards cushioning her audience for her upcoming

The 1920s was an age of drastic social and political changes. For the first time in history, more Americans started living in cities rather than on farms. Americans were wealthier than ever before. People from coast to coast bought similar goods, listened to the same music, did the same dances, and even used related slang. Numerous Americans were uncomfortable with this unfamiliar, urban, and occasionally racy “mass culture”. In fact, for a large number of people in the United States, the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. However, for a minuscule handful of youth in the nation’s larger cities, the 1920s were roaring. Prohibition gave criminals a way to illegally make money; gangsters, young men who worked in criminal gangs, began selling on the black-market alcohol. Young woman emerged during the 1920s with different appearance, attitude, and behavior; with a bobbed haircut and short skirts.

The twenties is said to have been a unique era. It was full of constant excitement. It was known as the “Jazz Age”. It was a period where Americans took time to find joy in their new freedoms. The twenties was an age of thrills and success where music, art, and literature flourished and social norms began to change, however this time was actually accentuated by a certain violence and chaos due to conflicting American ideals on issues such as Prohibition, race, and immigration.

The Black Sox Scandal in the 1919 World Series was the Chicago White Sox losing to the Cincinnati Reds intentionally in exchange for money from gamblers. Eight White Sox players were accused of this fixing in the 1920’s which includes what is was, who was involved, and the outcome.

The 1920s was a time of economic growth, inventions, and spending money. During the 1920s, America was renamed as “new society” and “new standard of living” (Foner, 773). Little did society know was that the 1920s was the reason for the Great Depression in the 1929. This time era had a rough start because there was a prohibition on manufacturing and selling alcohol (Foner, 742). There also an awakening of what America was really like for the immigrants, for example, the convictions of two Italians, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco. Vanzetti and Sacco were accused of partaking in an armed robbery and murder of a security guard (Foner, 768). This raises about the corruption of the government, and how it destabilized basic American freedom because these men were seen as threats to the American Life (Foner, 769). There were no evidence against Sacco and Vanzetti, yet they still got the death penalty (Foner, 769). The 1920s were also famous for the Jazz Age and Roaring Twenties (Foner, 769, 770). The flappers were women who were young and sexually liberated (Foner, 770). The speakeasies were nightclubs

During the early 1980’s, crime rate in New York was at its peak. To prove this point, Gladwell gives an example of the Bernard Goetz shooting. Gladwell also highlights that Goetz was viewed as a hero and people celebrated when he was easily acquitted on charges of assault and attempted murder. Gladwell mentions this to give us an example of the incidents that used to take place on the subways

Imagine the U.S with an economy that was the worst since the Great Depression, a major political scandal that had caused the president to resign and now you are the president without ever being elected. Everyone is looking to you to fix their country. These are just some of the opticals he was faced with. Gerald Ford was born on July 14, 1913 in Nebraska. He later changed his name from Leslie Lynch to Gerald Ford. Ford was also an outstanding Football player who got many scholarships from colleges but he chose to go down a different path he went to Yale to teach boxing and later to become a lawyer. A couple of years later Ford worked his way to becoming Vice President. Then when Nixon had resigned Ford took office in 1976. Book

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary a muckraker is someone who “searches out and publicly exposes real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business” (“Muckraker”). During the 1890s to the 1920s, muckrakers were a group of American journalists who exposed the corruption in society and informed the public about important social issues. The term muckraker originally came around when President Roosevelt gave a speech about reporters who exposed political and corporate corruption ("Who Are the Muckrakers?”). There have been so many muckrakers in American history whose works have been the cause of new laws and changes; some of the most important and famous of these muckrakers were Upton Sinclair, Samuel Hopkins Adams, and Jacob Riis.

There were many people that were involved in the Tweed Ring scandal, but William “Boss” Tweed and Thomas Nast were the most important. William “Boss” Tweed started his journey to power in the 1940s as a volunteer fire fighter.

During the 1890s to the 1920s cities began to grow, younger people, often children started working in factories, and muckrakers can to be. Many children had to work for their family instead of going to school. People started moving to the cities to get better jobs. Children often had to work in factories instead of going to school because they needed to help their family make money. Since children were working so young, muckrakers came about.

In the late 1800’s, Julius Chambers checked herself into a mental asylum undercover as a mental patient and began composing one of the first forms of muckraker journalism, which exposed the abuse inmates were subjected to within these asylums. After Julius Chambers infamous account of the asylums, muckraker journalism spread like wildfire, leading to exposed political corruption and social scandals. Since the muckraker movement, news has become exceedingly relevant in people’s lives to get information regarding sports, the world, science, entertainment, etc. However, as news has evolved its values have changed with the times to provide their subscribers news best akin to their interests and values. News today values tragedy and oddity while

In modern times, the freedom of the press has become the impressment of the free. Millionaires and politicians alike live in a world of concealment in an attempt to live a life without constant attention. In Stuart Woods's New York Times Bestselling (June 18-25 2017) Novel, Indecent Exposure, the lives of the famous are uncovered as they relentlessly attempt to escape the corruption of the press. The perception of a corrupt media which is relentless in exposing indecent material to the public is displayed throughout the entire novel.

For this assignment, we were assigned to look at a newspaper at three different time in history on our birthday. I was born on February 19 so I look at 1995, when I was born, twenty years earlier in 1975, and then twenty years before that in 1955. I decided to use the New York Times as my paper to research and my topic was to look at crime reporting. This paper will look at the similarities and differences on how journalists of that decade reported on crime. Some points that will be brought up is the content and writing style, the visual element of the article, and how the differences reflect the year they were published.

Over the summer, I read Robert Castaneda’s novel, S Street Rising. The book tells the story of Castaneda working as a reporter for The Washington Post covering the crime epidemic of DC in the 1990’s while battling a crippling crack addiction. Much of the events take place on S Street Northwest, a place where at the time, was an open-air drug market. Although the book is mostly focused on Castaneda, he also includes other people who he encountered while living in DC, including former DC Police captain Lou Hennessy and local pastor Jim Dickerson. The book starts off with action right from the start, with Castaneda recalling a case where five children were struck by bullets in a shootout. Even though he was supposed to be there doing his job as a journalist, he couldn’t help feeling on edge because the shooting occurred in an area where he would purchase drugs and involve himself with ‘strawberries’ who were defined as “women who trade sex for drugs.” (Castaneda 2014). Castaneda describes feeling of his double life “tawdry” and worries that if those details were exposed, not only would he be stripped from his job as the Post, but “become an embarrassing footnote in the national crack epidemic.” (Castaneda 2014)