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The Yellow Kid Trend
The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead American comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World -
The Titanic Sinks
At 1:20 a.m. on April 15, a Marconi wireless station in New Foundland picks up an SOS from the R.M.S. Titanic. Carr Van Anda of the New York Times calls to find that the Titanic's wireless was silent half hour after the distress call was received. Before 3:30 a.m. Van Anda and staff organize the story, retrieving a passenger list and pictures of the Titanic -
Ruth Snyder Execution
Ruth Snyder, a discontented Long Island housewife, convinced her lover, Judd Gray, that her husband was mistreating her. The pair killed him with a sash weight. A clever photographer from the New York Daily News, with a camera strapped to his ankle, snapped a picture of her as the juice coursed through her body. It sold 250,000 extra copies and is the iconic image of the 1920s. -
Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in a landslide election for the U.S. presidency, due mainly to the nation's struggles of the Great Depression -
Roosevelt Died
death on April 13, 1945, brought great sadness to the nation. An editorial in The New York Times personified the nation's shocked and sad reaction -
President Eisenhower
Eisenhower became the first Republican in the White House after five terms of Democrats. His campaign was proof that a candidate needed to be able to work with the broadcast media to get elected. -
1960 Journalism Trend
it had become pracitcal to get fresh images of events from abroad onto the news every evening. The broadcast of disturbing footage from Vietnam on television gave the public a daily dose of the horrors of war and swayed public opinion. -
Equal rights 1970s
Women were protesting for equal rights! -
CNNs Early Years
media companies merged and increasingly focused on the prices of their stocks on the stock exchange. New technologies such as cable television, led to expansion and the creation of new networks such as CNN and Fox. -
U.S and Iraq War
In 1990 the U.S. engaged in a war with Iraq and its despot leader (and former U.S. ally) Saddam Hussein after his invasion of neighboring Kuwait.
