We'll All be Murdered in Our Beds
Elliott & Thompson Limited (Verlag)
978-1-78396-133-7 (ISBN)
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'If it bleeds, it leads' - this maxim is as true now as it was 300 years ago. Crime is the staple of the news, and our appetite for these dark and dangerous stories shows no sign of abating.; In this colourful history of the wild world of crime reporting since 1700, Duncan Campbell reveals what it's really like to deal with murderers, gangsters, robbers, cat burglars, victims, informers and detectives, looking at the 'hacks in the macs' and the 'Murder Gang' who would go to any lengths to get a story - and serve it up to an ever-eager reading public.; It is not a grim beat; the phrase 'gallows humour' did not come from nowhere. All of human emotion is here: hate, love, greed, desire, fear, jealousy, anger, revenge, redemption, compassion. Crime is a prism through which we see society and its phobias. As the relationships between the press, public, police and criminals are now being questioned as never before, We'll All Be Murdered in Our Beds! tells the compelling, sometimes scandalous tale of the stories and storytellers that have entertained, shocked and appalled us - and will continue to do so.
Duncan Campbell is former crime correspondent of the Guardian, former chairman of the Crime Reporters' Association and winner of the Bar Council's newspaper journalist of the year. He has written for the Observer, New Statesman, LRB, Oldie, Esquire and British Journalism Review. He has presented Crime Desk on BBC Radio 5 Live and the Radio 4 documentary Bandits of the Blitz, has appeared on the Today programme, LBC radio and numerous TV documentaries, and has lectured widely on crime reporting. He is the author of six books including the bestselling The Underworld (BBC, 1994) and an acclaimed crime novel, If it Bleeds (Headline, 2010).
Introduction ix; 1 Not So Ordinary: The First Professional Crime Reporter 1; 2 A Highwayman Came Riding: The Arrival of Celebrity Criminals 9; 3 Killing Times: How Murder and the Noose Made the Front Pages 17; 4 A Twist in the Tale: Charles Dickens, Crime Writer 23; 5 From the Maiden to the Ripper: How Muckraker-general Changed Crime Reporting For Ever 29; 6 From Bodysnatching to Bodysnatching: Crime Reporting North of the Border and the Man Who Couldn't Have Enough of a Good Murder 41; 7 From Brides in Baths to the Cleft Chin Murder: Crime Reporting During Wartime 53; 8 Dope and Dopes: Reporting on Drugs from the High Priestess of Unholy Rites to Mr Nice 61; 9 Fleet Street's Murder Gang: Skid Marks That End in a Pool of Blood 75; 10 'Mr Murder:' The Man Who Brought Gore to the Airwaves and Screen 83; 11 The Sultans of the Newsroom: From the Vice Man to the Prince of Darkness 91; 12 Silent Men and Scapegoats: Looking at the Dock from the Other Side 111; 13 Getting Away With Murder: Reporters and Criminals 119; 14 Mind How You Go: Cops and Hacks 139; 15 They Got the Wrong One: Trial and Redemption by the Media 155; 16 True Crime: A Detective Takes Up the Tale 169; 17 The House of Horrors and the Garden of Evil: The West Case and its Legacy for the Press 177; 18 Crashing the Barriers: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman? 187; 19 Femmes Fatales, Molls and Madams: The Woman in the Dock 197; 20 They Made Their Excuses and Left: The Language of Crime Reporting 217; 21 The Leveson Leviathan: How Hacking Damaged Hacks 227; 22 Still the Best Job in the World? The End of an Era 237; 23 The Crime Reporter in Space: What the Future Holds 261; Bibliography 265; Acknowledgements 273; Index 275
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.4.2016 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78396-133-3 / 1783961333 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78396-133-7 / 9781783961337 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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