Framing the New Journalism
摘要
When, in May 1887, Matthew Arnold, the poet, socio-political observer, and schools’ inspector, characterised the London Pall Mall Gazette (PMG) as full of good qualities, but profoundly “feather-brained,” the term “new journalism” took on a renewed cultural impetus. Arnold’s observations, in an article entitled “Up to Easter,” published in The Nineteenth Century, the respected Liberal monthly review, have become a seminal evaluation of the newspaper and its editor, W. T. Stead, the prominent late-Victorian political agitator and former conductor of the Liberal Darlington Northern Echo (NE):