"Creating 'Rosy the Riveter"

In chapter nine of Rodger Streitmatter's book Mightier Than the Sword topic shifts to the effects that journalism of the time had on how the traditional American house wife of the 1940's went from  running the the house to running the assembly lines for the war effort. These woman and their hard work are the reason the America icon Rosy the Riveter came about. Rosy in short was a propaganda / national icon that was suppose to emulate the embodiment of the working woman of the second great war. She was born along with a slue of many other ploys directed towards woman of the time by the government, which were then inflamed by the coverage given by the press. The goal was to encourage them to do their part for the war effort. Because at the time the men that were usually working in the factories and mines were off at war, so the nation had to tap into an alternate sours of labor.


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Boss Tweed Ring

Hi I'm Chris. this my blog on the Boss Tweed Ring from 1869 and how the field of journalism shaped its out come. But first a quick tutorial of the Boss Tweed Ring. It all started in 1869 with William M. Tweed, as commissioner of public works, leading a ring that controlled the government in NYC. He and his associates robbed the taxpayers of many millions of dollars. An author of the time named Albert Bigelow Paine, had this to say about their scam; "their methods were curiously simple and primitive...". the main idea of the scam was to take control the ruling party of the state,  which at the time the Democratic Party, and then use that power to buy large amounts businesses. thus giving Tweed and his constituents even more power over the city.