Shaping history : the role of newspapers in Hawai'i / Helen Geracimos Chapin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapin, Helen Geracimos.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Hawaii--History.

Journalism.

Hawaii--History.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Just a decade after the first printing press arrived in Honolulu in 1820, American Protestant missionaries produced the first newspaper in the islands. More than a thousand daily, weekly, or monthly papers in nine different languages have appeared since then. Today they are often considered a secondary source of information, but in their heyday Hawai'i's newspapers formed one of the most diversified, vigorous, and influential presses in the world. In this original and timely work, Helen Geracimos Chapin charts the role Hawai'i's newspapers played in shaping major historic events in the islands and how the rise of the newspaper abetted the rise of American influence in Hawai'i. Shaping History is based on a wide selection of written and oral sources, including extensive interviews with journalists and others working in the newspaper industry. Students of journalism and Hawaiian history will find this comprehensive history of Hawai'i's newspapers especially valuable.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: "To Exhibit Truth in an Attractive Form": An Establishment Press Arrives-1834-1850

1. Ka Lama: "The Light" Is Brought to Hawai'i

2. The Solemn Responsibility of Dissent

3. The Polynesian: In the Service of America and the Kingdom

4. The English Flag and the English Language

5. God Gives Way to Mammon: The Mahele of 1848

PART II: "Fiery Polemic Contests" for the Public's Support- 1850-1887

6. The Honolulu Times Welcomes the City of Honolulu

7. The Chinese Arrive

8. A Prophet Without Profit: Fornander Topples Judd

9. The Advertiser Enters History

10. A Hawaiian Nationalist Press Is Born

11. "A New Era Has Dawned": Sugar Is King

12. The Politics of Health

PART III: Nationalists versus the Oligarchy: An Uneven Battle-1887-1899

13. A Pan-Pacific Dream

14. Robert Wilcox, "the Napoleon of Printers' Lane"

15. Revolution and the Suppression of Freedom of Speech

16. The Republic Burns Down Chinatown

PART IV: "Here to Stay": A U.S. Territory- 1900-1941

17. Annexation and the Pacific Cable

18. The 1909 Strike and the Japanese Language Press

19. Respected Residents Become the Enemy: World War I and the Germans

20. Suppressing the News and Contributing to a Massacre

21. The Three R's-Reading, 'Riting, and Racism

22. "Reclaiming" Waikîkî for the "Aloha Spirit"

23. Getting Away With Murder: The Massie Case

24. Hilo's "Bloody Monday": The Tribune-Herald and the Voice of Labor

PART V: "Passed for Publication"- 1941-1945

25. A Wartime Press and the Paradox of Censorship for Freedom

26. AJAs: American Patriots

PART VI: The March toward Statehood- the 1940's and 1950's

27. "Dear Joe": Lorrin Thurston Writes to Joe-Stalin or Farrington?

28. The Honolulu Record and the Art of Muckraking

29. The Hawaii Seven: Journalists in Jeopardy

30. Ka Leo Reports on the Golden Rule

31. Watch Them Grow: Tourism and Suburban O'ahu

32. Statehood and the Star-Bulletin

PART VII :The Turbulent 1960's

33. The Business of Newspapers

34. The Popular Columnist

35. Sports and Journalism: "The Social Fabric"

36. Above Ground: The Battle for Diamond Head

37. Underground: The Battle for Hawai'i's Soul

38. Women in the News: From Society to Social Causes

PART VIII: From Satellite City Halls to a Satellite Universe- 1970-1976

39. Memories of Maui

40. Corporate Economics and Chain Papers

41. Fighting the Newspapers to a Draw: Frank Fasi and the Dailies

42. The Public Opinion Poll

43. Anger and Wit: The Political Cartoon

44. Hawaiian Sovereignty and a Satellite Universe, 1976

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-371) and index.

ISBN:

9780824864279

0824864271

9780585266008

058526600X

OCLC:

613362516