EAN: 9783319840642

BERNARD SHAW AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES BERNARD S...

This book explores Bernard Shaw's journalism from the mid-1880s through the Great War-a period
in which Shaw contributed some of the most powerful and socially relevant journalism the
western world has experienced. In approaching Shaw's journalism  the promoter and abuser of the
New Journalism  W. T. Stead  is contrasted to Shaw  as Shaw countered the sensational news copy
Stead and his disciples generated. To understand Shaw's brand of New Journalism  his responses
to the popular press' portrayals of high profile historical crises are examined  while other
examples prompting Shaw's journalism over the period are cited for depth: the 1888 Whitechapel
murders  the 1890-91 O'Shea divorce scandal that fell Charles Stewart Parnell  peace crusades
within militarism  the catastrophic Titanic sinking  and the Great War. Through Shaw's
journalism that undermined the popular press' shock efforts that prevented rational thought 
Shaw endeavored to promote clear thinking through the immediacy of his critical journalism.
Arguably  Shaw saved the free press.

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