And you thought today's media was bad!

[jjspirko]

I just found this doing a bit of research on Copperhead bites. It is a newspaper article from 1909.

Some excerpts

"the bite of a copperhead normally kills a man in twenty minutes"

and

the man survived do to "the quickness with which he reached the whiskey" - (meaning he lived because he drank whiskey in large quantities after being bitten)

You know the more things change the more they stay the same. This is 100 years ago and the press can't even get it close to right and the guy that got bit was an idiot.

Nice huh,

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...CF&oref=slogin

[dsirkle]

They still had those Western dime novels then.I believe that ethics first entered journalism as a response to correct 'Yellow Journalism' back about the time period that you refer too. But they've forgotten about ethical writing these days.

[jjspirko]

They still had those Western dime novels then.I believe that ethics first entered journalism as a response to correct 'Yellow Journalism' back about the time period that you refer too. But they've forgotten about ethical writing these days.

I think you are correct. If memory serves me (and it has been two decades since school) yellow journalism had its hay day in the 1880s and 1890s and should have been in decline by this point because Americans were pretty ticked about being suckered into the Spanish American war, which brought nothing to the nation other then a lot of young men dying.

Again as the songs go,

"there is a season turn, turn, turn" and "the more things change, the more they stay the same"

Timeless wisdom right up there with the universal front page for newspapers by Samuel Clemens,