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Vigilante newspapers : a tale of sex, religion, and murder in the Northwest / Gerald J. Baldasty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldasty, Gerald J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Newspapers--Objectivity.
- Newspapers.
- Religion and the press--Oregon.
- Religion and the press.
- Church of the Bride of Christ.
- Creffield, Edmund, 1867?-1906.
- Creffield, Edmund.
- Mitchell, George (George Washington), 1883?-1906.
- Mitchell, George.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A powerful and instructive story of how intolerant and sensational newspapers in Corvallis and Seattle encouraged vigilante violence, murder, and lawlessness toward and Oregon religious cult.
- Contents:
- Collision course
- The shame of Corvallis
- Weak women
- The press proclaims a hero
- Defending George Mitchell
- Second thoughts
- Unforgiven
- News and values.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295990309
- 0295990309
- OCLC:
- 701103535
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