Quality Journalism: How Montreal’s Quality Dailies Presented the News during the First World War

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Title
Quality Journalism: How Montreal’s Quality Dailies Presented the News during the First World War
Abstract
A comparative examination of reporting during the First World War by two Montreal newspapers shows that these journals articulated divergent messages about the war and domestic events. The author argues that during the First World War, Le Devoir refused to be limited by the traditional impassive reporting style of Montreal's managerial class newspapers, but the Montreal Gazette did not. Where Le Devoir became more defiant and aggressive in its defence of Francophone rights, the Gazette managed to appear more detached even as it reported the same events. The author argues that this divergence is important because it represents a larger pattern of wartime change taking place as quality dailies gambled their reputations on the ideals of their owners and editors. He concludes that each newspaper carefully constructed their attempts to influence public opinion, but where Le Devoir was responding to what it considered a crisis, the Gazette's interests and alliances mandated loyalty and a calmer tone.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
University of Manitoba
Place
Winnipeg, MB
Date
2014
Language
en
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Citation
Marchand, Gregory. “Quality Journalism: How Montreal’s Quality Dailies Presented the News during the First World War.” Master’s Thesis, University of Manitoba, 2014. http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/bitstream/handle/1993/23817/Marchand_Gregory.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
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