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Mister Pulitzer and the Spider: Modern News from Realism to the Digital

Kevin G. Barnhurst

Print publication date: 2016

Print ISBN-13: 9780252040184

Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017

DOI: 10.5406/illinois/9780252040184.001.0001

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News Online Reentered Modern Time

News Online Reentered Modern Time

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(p.161) Chapter 15 News Online Reentered Modern Time
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Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
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Kevin G. Barnhurst

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University of Illinois Press
DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252040184.003.0015

This chapter considers changing perspectives of modern time. It argues that newspapers are stuck in late-nineteenth-century modern time, raising complaints and objections to the new time regime. In contrast, television news is mired in mid-twentieth-century modern time, and the web editions of legacy media, after a moment of turbulence, returned to reflect the modernist time of an institutional memory they share. New interactive and mobile technologies create for news media a space of temporal discomfort. The modern sense of time empowered practitioners, giving them clear tools for selection and sequence, the discipline of deadlines, and the competition of the scoop and the exclusive, with the underlying assumption that time is money. The new sense of time removes their illusion of some control in a political life formerly attuned to their own news cycles.

Keywords:   news production, online news, digital news, television news, modern time, modernism, newspapers, news media

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