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Weighted scales: American newspaper coverage of the trial of the major war criminals at Nurmberg
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Author
Gribben
,
Brian
Title
Weighted
scales
:
American
newspaper
coverage
of the
trial
of the
major
war
criminals
at
Nurmberg
Degree Program
History
Subject keywords
Nurmberg
;
Jackson
;
McCormick
;
media
;
coverage
Abstract
The
Trial
of the
Major
War
Criminals
at
Nuremberg
, the
personalities
associated
with the
trial
, the
verdicts
rendered
, and
criticisms
directed
toward
both
those
verdicts
and the
tribunal
itself
have
generated
a
multitude
of
historical
works
.
However
,
few
historians
have
explored
the
American
print
media's
coverage
of the
trial
and
even
fewer
have
studied
how a
newspaper's
disposition
towards
the
trial
reflected
that
publication's
political
ideology
and
influenced
the
newspaper's
coverage
of the
trial
itself
. For this
reason
,
it
is
the
objective
of this
thesis
to
examine
this
neglected
area
,
thus
contributing
to the
scholarship
of the
first
Nuremberg
Trial
. The
newspapers
chosen
for
assessment
reflect
varying
degrees
of
ideological
affiliation
and are
somewhat
diverse
geographically
. Of the
five
publications
selected
,
two
, The
Wall
Street
Journal
and
Chicago
Daily
Tribune
, were
recognized
to be
solid
supporters
of the
political
right
.
Likewise
,
during
the
period
examined
, the
other
publications
, The
New
York
Times
, The
Washington
Post
, and
Los
Angeles
Times
, were
considered
politically
moderate
to
liberal
in their
ideology
. This
study
examines
editorials
,
columns
(both
unique
to the
specific
publication
and those
syndicated
nationally)
, and
letters
to the
editor
dedicated
to the
trial
, in
conjunction
with the
actual
reports
filed
by the
newspaper's
correspondents
and
wire
services
. This
thesis
also
examines
the
regularity
of
each
newspaper's
coverage
of the
trial
and its
selection
of the
information
published
within
its
pages
,
including
a
comparison
with the
other
publications
.
After
an
intense
examination
of the
materials
listed
above
, this
study
finds
that there
exists
a
strong
correlation
between
the
political
ideology
associated
with the
individual
newspapers
and their
disposition
towards
the
trial
, a
bias
that
often
manifested
itself
in the
newspaper's
coverage
of the
proceedings
. As
one
might
expect
, those
publications
considered
traditionally
moderate
to
liberal
endorsed
the
trial
and
viewed
it
as a
positive
step
towards
strengthening
international
law
and
establishing
global
security
. Those
newspapers
often
identified
as
being
politically
conservative
questioned
the
trial's
legitimacy
,
believing
that its
mechanisms
were
anathematic
to
western
legal
principles
and
infringed
on
national
sovereignty
.
Date Original
2010
Publisher
Fort Hays State University
Relation
Digital reproduction of the Fort Hays State University Theses Collection.
Type
Text
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
GribbenBrian_2010.pdf
Source
LD2652 .T5 H5 G753 2010
Language
eng
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