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Author Baldasty, Gerald J

Title Vigilante newspapers : a tale of sex, religion, and murder in the Northwest / Gerald J. Baldasty
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : illustrations
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Collision course -- 2. The shame of Corvallis -- 3. Weak women -- 4. The press proclaims a hero -- 5. Defending George Mitchell -- 6. Second thoughts -- 7. Unforgiven -- 8. News and values -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary A powerful and instructive story of how intolerant and sensational newspapers in Corvallis and Seattle encouraged vigilante violence, murder, and lawlessness toward and Oregon religious cult
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Creffield, Edmund, 1867?-1906.
Mitchell, George (George Washington), 1883?-1906.
SUBJECT Creffield, Edmund, 1867?-1906 fast
Mitchell, George (George Washington), 1883?-1906 fast
Subject Church of the Bride of Christ.
SUBJECT Church of the Bride of Christ fast
Subject Newspapers -- Objectivity.
Religion and the press -- Oregon
Journalism -- Objectivity.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Journalism -- Objectivity
Newspapers -- Objectivity
Religion and the press
Oregon
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005016363
ISBN 9780295990309
0295990309