Country conscience
Subtitle: a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995
By: by Rod Kirkpatrick.
Publisher: Infinite Harvest Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Canberra City, A.C.T
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Press -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century.; Press -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century.; Journalism, Rural -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century.; Journalism, Rural -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-418) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: CHRONOLOGICAL; title: 1 You cannot serve two masters: Strode and his Gazettes; title: 2 Slow forties and fast fifties; title: 3 Vitality tested and tried; title: 4 Rushes and riots: the 1860s; title: 5 Great race for glory: the 1870s; title: 6 Leverage, celebrity and service: the 1880s; title: 7 Cutting off the community's bloodstream: the 1890s; title: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ECONOMICS; title: 8 Between the creek and the small debts court; title: 9 Martyrs versus parasites; title: ROLE, POLITICS AND LIBEL; title: 10 Line upon line; title: 11 Great generative force: press and politics; title: 12 'Penny gag': postal charges for papers; title: 13 Setting out to unite the colonies; title: 14 Attacking the blight of narrowness; title: 15 Libels and long purses; title: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; title: 16 Breathing life into dry bones: the NSW Country Press Association; title: 17 It takes two to make an argument: amalgamation; title: 18 When a daily chronicle is imperative; title: PROPRIETORS AND EDITORS; title: 19 A queer game: the editors (19th century); title: 20 Transfer of power: the editors (20th century); title: 21 Why dynasties disintegrate; title: 22 Conglomeration of generations: the Vincents; title: 23 Never believe what a traveller tells you: the Westons; title: 24 A weakness for starting papers: the Bradleys and the Woods; title: CHAIN OWNERSHIP; title: 25 Coming of the corporations; title: 26 Breaking the mould: Armati, Newton and Lord; title: 27 Little acorn becomes Rural Press Ltd; title: 28 Miners' voice and murder special: Newcastle and Wollongong; title: GATHERING AND PRODUCING THE NEWS; title: 29 The shipping news - and it's grim: the news (19th century); title: 30 Eyeball-to-eyeball reporting: the news (20th century); title: 31 Meltdown: the technology of newspaper production; title: 32 New site for a new millennium: 1930-1995; title: 33 End note.