Media in America, 1881: Garfield, Guiteau, Bell, Whitman

Menke, Richard

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“…. turned its events into something more” (Menke, 2005: 639). Large and small newspapers with access to the telegraph issued extras with medical bulletins, noting the minute of release, while crowds eyed the news posted outside.…”

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“…Large and small newspapers with access to the telegraph issued extras with medical bulletins, noting the minute of release, while crowds eyed the news posted outside. “As the president lingered, the multiple daily reports on his condition—his pulse and temperature, ingestions and excretions, responses to his wife’s comments and his doctors’ nutritive enemas—became part of everyday life” (Menke, 2005: 644). Besides carrying dispatches about the reactions of luminaries and the public, the wires also circulated and recirculated stories about the varied meanings people attached to the event—its implications for politics, national unity, modern culture, and even the nature of modern communications.…”

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Electrifying news! Journalists, audiences, and the culture of timeliness in the United States, 1840--1920

Kielbowicz

2016

Time & Society

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The telegraph literally and figuratively electrified news by transforming reporting into a process that delivered impulses of information whose timeliness often riveted and sometimes excited newspaper audiences. The now-familiar daily news cycle-scheduled reports of recent news punctuated by even more timely breaking news-originated with telegraphic journalism. Daily papers began presenting themselves as the public's portal to an electrified national and international newsgathering network. Looking beyond the role of telegraph firms and wire services, this study explores how the culture of journalistic timeliness was cultivated in organizational, occupational, and public settings. Organizationally, telegraph-enabled timeliness altered every stage of the news-production process, from reporter-source interactions to the delivery of stories to readers. The press reified timeliness internally through organizational rewards and occupational discourses, and externally by projecting its institutional values through marketing and the metatexts that accompanied stories. For the audience, daily papers conveyed the temporal rhythms of a networked industrial society. Audiences valued some timely news as data inputs that enhanced opportunities to participate in distant affairs or influence outcomes, though for economic intelligence private channels almost always outstripped newspapers' public delivery of the same information. But even electrified news valued mostly for its storytelling made events common to many people simultaneously in a manner that encouraged the construction of meaning by scattered audiences. In those situations, timeliness often

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Electrifying news! Journalists, audiences, and the culture of timeliness in the United States, 1840--1920

Kielbowicz

2016

Time & Society

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“…1 Richard Menke, of the University of Georgia places it in a larger social context. “The deterioration and death of Garfield,” he wrote, “might have been America’s first live media event.” 2(p639)…”

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“…In 1865 it still took 2 weeks for news of Lincoln’s death to reach London. 2 But once the technology took hold it became indispensable to Western life. By 1867 Western Union had 50 000 miles of wire carrying 2 million dispatches each year.…”

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The Slow Death of President Garfield: America’s First Live Media Event

Nakayama

2020

The American Surgeon™

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Daniel Smith Lamb (1843–1929): A window into the early histories of the Army Medical Museum and Howard University Medical School

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Spatola

2019

Clinical Anatomy

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U.S. Army doctor Daniel Smith Lamb was a significant figure in the history of American pathology during its formative years. For 55 years (1865–1920), Lamb performed hundreds of autopsies in and around Washington, D.C. and personally collected over 1,500 gross pathology specimens for the Army Medical Museum. His work began at the close of the Civil War and continued on through World War I, contributing substantially to gross pathological and histological studies that documented wartime pathology, thus further contributing to the training of Army doctors. Specimens he collected also include material from autopsies he conducted on President James Garfield, his assassin Charles Guiteau, and other historical figures. Under the auspices of the Army Medical Museum, he conducted autopsies across the city of Washington for the museum's collection, many of which survive to this day at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. He served under 12 U.S. Army Surgeons General and 11 Museum Curators and was noted to be a steadying influence during a time of constant leadership changes at that institution. Lamb was known throughout Washington, D.C. as an advocate of medical education for African‐Americans and women. While working at the Museum, he simultaneously served for 46 years as professor of anatomy at Howard University (1877–1923). He wrote seminal histories of the institutions with which he was associated and in so doing also contributed significantly to the study of the history of medicine.

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Media in America, 1881: Garfield, Guiteau, Bell, Whitman

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Electrifying news! Journalists, audiences, and the culture of timeliness in the United States, 1840--1920

Electrifying news! Journalists, audiences, and the culture of timeliness in the United States, 1840--1920

The Slow Death of President Garfield: America’s First Live Media Event

Daniel Smith Lamb (1843–1929): A window into the early histories of the Army Medical Museum and Howard University Medical School

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