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Download full textCoward, John – 1987
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, a national catastrophe and the major news story of the year, was the first national labor strike in U.S. history. Because of the ideological bias of the press, specifically its implicit commitment to capitalism and to objectivity (itself a "myth" of social order), newspapers of the period could be…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Content Analysis, Cultural Influences, Editorials
