Sports at The New Yorker

Abstract

This chapter illustrates how, in the years leading up to the launch of The New Yorker, sport had assumed an increasingly important place in American mass leisure. Joseph Pulitzer became the first publisher of a New York daily paper to establish a distinct sports department — one of a series of measures that saw the circulation of the World rise from 11,000 in 1883 to 1.3 million in 1898. Although Pulitzer recruited regular contributors on forty different sports, it was the popularity of baseball and boxing (decried as barbaric on the editorial page but heavily represented in the sports pages) that transformed casual readers into fervent fans. William Randolph Hearst followed Pulitzer's example when he took over the New York Journal in 1895, expanding the sports section and even placing sports stories on the front page.

The president and the vice president: Different types of partnerships for a unique power couple

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“…67−86). Gore also influenced the president on several foreign policy issues, including the conflict in the Balkans—he convinced the administration to take a more aggressive stance toward Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic (Halberstam, 2001)—but also pushed Clinton to order a military intervention in Haiti in 1994 (Boyer, 1994). Gore also oversaw environmental issues, and Clinton mostly gave him a free hand in managing them (Turque, 2000).…”

Animalistic slurs increase harm by changing perceptions of social desirability

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“…There are poisonous, bad mushrooms and there are bad people’. In addition, animalistic slurs often appear in propaganda alongside references to the victim group as enemies, criminals and traitors—terms that make most sense when applied to humans [ 19 , 21 – 23 ]. These terms may all serve to increase antipathy towards the victim group.…”

Lexical bundles in mainstream movie'and Noah Baumbach's selected film scripts: a corpus-based study of telecinematic discourse

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