10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOB SISTER»
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On June 25, 1906 an event of little public importance occurred--famous architect and womanizer Stanford White was shot dead by Harry K. Thaw, the scion of an influential family. It became the "hottest story" of the century.
Phyllis Leslie Abramson, 1990
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Radium Girls: A Play in Two Acts
SCENE 6 (Enter SOB SISTER and REPORTER.) REPORTER. Jan. 12, 1928!
Jack Youngwood reporting for the Newark Ledger! SOB SISTER. Nancy Jane
Harlan for the Graphic! REPORTER. Radium Girls Go to Court Today! SOB
SISTER.
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Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and ...
Female reporters had written about trials before this one, but never in such detail,
at such length, with so much publicity, and in the company of so many other
women.1 Yet the case also spawned a dismissive label, "sob sister," that would
dog ...
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Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual ...
One of these male reporters apparently used the term “sob sister” in a derisive
manner, and the rest is a bit of lexicon history (Ross, 1936). The term was never
used in a flattering way, and although some sob sisters, such as Dorothy Dix,
who ...
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Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, ...
Russian Sob Sister OlgaGridina (I9I0) ALTHOUGH NO BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION is AVAILABLE ON GRIDINA, HER PERSONA AFFORDS HER A
PLACE IN HISTORY. GRIDINA'S COLUMN APPEARED IN RUSSIA'S FIRST
TABLOID, ...
James Von Geldern, Louise McReynolds, 1998
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Murder, Honor, and Law: 4 Virginia Homicides from ...
The publishers and editors of the yellow press encouraged a special version of
sensationalism in trial coverage, denounced by critics as "sob-sister journalism."
Written by both men and women reporters, it was aimed at women readers,
telling ...
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Front-page Women Journalists, 1920-1950
Some postwar front-page women reporters went even further in trying to dislodge
women from the sob sister niche. Agness Underwood, a Los Angeles crime
reporter and city editor, turned the stereotype on its head by suggesting that
some ...
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Collected poetry
1The Americanism “Sob Sister” originally referred to a newspaperwoman
assigned to write sentimental replies to readers' letters. At the time this story was
written (1933), the meaning of the phrase had broadened to cover any woman ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1986
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Doris Fleeson: Incomparably the First Political Journalist ...
... Doris Fleeson is a top reporter. She works close to the news, avoids retreat into
the think tank, and writes with clarity and economy. . . . One thing she is not is a
sob sister. . . ."33 Doris jokingly said that she was wearing a new hat <^ssd 213.
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What ...
Argues that the anti-bias and sensitivity guidelines promoted by the Left and the Right exert so much force on educational publishers that the resulting modified and censored student materials are reduced to bland and boring texts.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOB SISTER»
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Opinion/Column: GOP wanders in the fever swamps of condemnation
Yet as far as fellow GOP presidential hopefuls Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie and Rick Perry are concerned, Rand Paul is a lily-livered sob sister. Graham says ... «The Daily Progress, Jul 15»
Republicans Have Waded Into the Fever Swamps
Yet as far as fellow GOP presidential hopefuls Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie, and Rick Perry are concerned, Rand Paul is a lily-livered sob sister. Graham says ... «Reason, Jul 15»
No Heat Hasn't Turned West Side Nuns Into Sob Sisters
“We want to continue no matter what, but sometimes it is not easy,” Sister ... The sisters need $40,000 in order to fix their heating system and hope to get that ... «Patch.com, Feb 15»
ANOTHER OBAMACARE SOB STORY Proven false
Even the venerable CBS News got caught running a sob story that factually ... in two inches down) into the claim that was being made by yet another sob sister. «Sky Valley Chronicle, Nov 13»
Abigail Van Buren
While not the first of the sorority known in the United States as “sob sisters”, she became easily the most famous, and could fairly be credited with inspiring the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 13»
The Best Music of 2011: Adele, Glen Campbell plus 40 more CDs to …
A sob sister ruled music in 2011. As every sentient being knows, Adele's album-length moan about a lost love — named for the age when she experienced it ... «New York Daily News, Dec 11»
How Nancy Grace has reinvented journalism's 'Sob Sister'
She is a “sob sister,” a stock figure that is more than a century old and is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “a journalist, especially a woman, ... «Poynter.org, Jul 11»
Murderesses Row: guns, gams, and glamour in 1920s Chicago
Did newspaper "sob sisters" really conspire to free the women of Murderesses Row? And was there really a sleazy lawyer like the one played to perfection by ... «Christian Science Monitor, Sep 10»
Spacemen and Anonymuncles Attack! Old Words for Writers
With apologies to newsie, gazetteer, sensationist, sob sister, wireman, diurnalist, paragrapher, penny-a-liner, and pediodicalist, please enjoy these terms, which ... «OUPblog, Mar 09»
Watch out for energy vampires
The sob sister, for one, always considers herself the victim. The world is always against her, and she'll recount every horrible thing that has happened to her, ... «CNN International, Mar 08»
