The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall: Newspapers on Stage in July Monarchy France
By Cary Hollinshead-Strick ’96
Published Oct. 22, 2019
When commercial newspapers arrived in France in 1836, the established theater industry provided popular public commentary on its function in society. In The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall: Newspapers on Stage in July Monarchy France (Northwestern University Press), Cary Hollinshead-Strick ’96 introduces a journalistic debate critiquing newspapers’ innate biases from advertising to quashing information at will — issues that are still hot topics today.
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