Kennewick Man: coming to closure

Antiquity ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (348) ◽  
pp. 1485-1493 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Meltzer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Television News ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject

Few human remains from the distant past have achieved the public visibility and notoriety of Kennewick Man (the Ancient One). Since his discovery in July 1996 in the state of Washington, he has appeared on one of America's best-known television news programmes,60 Minutes. He has been on the cover ofTimemagazine and in the pages ofPeople,NewsweekandThe New York Times.He has been the subject of popular press books (Downey 2000; Thomas 2000; Chatters 2001), and for many years running there were almost annual updates on his whereabouts and status inScience(some 30 in the decade following his discovery). That is saying nothing of the scholarly notice and debate he has drawn (e.g. Swedlund & Anderson 1999; Owsley & Jantz 2001; Steele & Powell 2002; Watkins 2004; Burkeet al. 2008), including a recently issued tome marking the culmination of almost a decade of study (Owsley & Jantz 2014a).

LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ABBREVIATIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER DISCOURSE AND TRANSLATION STRATEGIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
С.Б. Фомина
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
English Language ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Typical Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lexical Composition ◽  
The Guardian

В статье рассматриваются лексико-семантические характеристики сокращений современного англоязычного газетного дискурса на материале англоязычных электронных изданий The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday-Times, особенности их функционирования. Газетный дискурс представлен как сфера функционирования различных сокращений, а именно контракций, усечений, блендинга, аббревиаций. Предметом выступают сокращенные лексические единицы, их функционирование в современной прессе и стратегии их передачи с английского языка на русский. Обработка фактического материала позволяет произвести количественный анализ лексики и определить наиболее характерный тип аббревиаций для текстов СМИ, определить их функции. Анализ материала позволяет фиксировать тот факт, что среди рассмотренных лексических единиц, именно аббревиатуры преобладают в современном газетном дискурсе, что подтверждает влияние событийности на изменение лексического состава языка и является мощным средством его пополнения. Функционирование образно-оценочных и культурно-маркированных сокращений в газетном дискурсе может как облегчать, так и усложнять восприятие информации. Однако сокращенные лексические единицы содержат широкий информационный потенциал, что позволяет фиксировать основное значение текста в памяти получателя и влияет на восприятие информации в нужном автору направлении. Словарь, включенный в текст, приобретает как информативное, так и эмоционально-оценочное значение. ____________________________ © Фомина С.Б., 2021 The article observes the lexical and semantic characteristics of abbreviations of the modern English-language newspaper discourse based on material of the English-language electronic publications from of The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday-Times, discusses the functioning of abbreviations. Newspaper discourse is presented as the sphere of functioning of various abbreviations, such as contractions, clipping, blending, abbreviations. The subject is abbreviated lexical units, their functioning in the modern press and strategies for their transfer from English into Russian. Factual material analysis allows carrying out a quantitative analysis of the vocabulary and determine the most typical type of abbreviations for media texts, their functions. The analysis of the material proves quantitative superiority of abbreviations that prevail in modern newspaper discourse that confirms the influence of eventfulness on the change in the lexical composition of the language and is a powerful means of replenishing it. The functioning of figurative and evaluative and culturally-marked abbreviations in newspaper discourse facilitates and complicates the perception of information at the same time. However, abbreviated lexical units contain a wide information potential, which allows fixing the main meaning of the text in the receiver's memory and affects the perception of information in the direction the author needs. The vocabulary included in the text acquires informative and emotionally evaluative value as well.

The New York Times and Public Opinion Research: A Criticism

1967 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 654-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhart D. Wiebe
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Newspaper Editors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Times

Using five examples from the Times of faulty treatment of stories dealing with polls and opinion research, the author of this essay pleads for a better understanding of the subject by newspaper editors.

scholarly journals Transparency as metajournalistic performance: The New York Times’ Caliphate podcast and new ways to claim journalistic authority

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492199731
Author(s):  
Gabriela Perdomo ◽  
Philippe Rodrigues-Rouleau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
The Times ◽  
Journalistic Authority

Transparency is increasingly touted as a strategic tool for elevating journalistic authority. Despite this push, literature has overlooked how transparency can be utilized for authority purposes in audiovisual artefacts. In this paper, we conduct a qualitative thematic analysis of The New York Times’ podcast Caliphate to examine how transparency is strategically weaponized to stake a claim to journalistic authority. Based on the premise that transparency is a metajournalistic performance – a type of journalism about journalism that is performative in acting on people’s perception of journalistic authority – we identify three of those metajournalistic performances in the podcast: Revealing the journalistic process, Constructing the reporter’s persona and Reaffirming the journalistic culture. Together, they exhibit a form of self-celebratory transparency that strategically performs boundary-setting, definitional control and legitimization functions, in a bid to impress audiences and have them recognize the journalistic authority of the Caliphate reporters and The Times. We conclude with the implications of these strategic performances of transparency. First, how it can be used by reporters to reinstate verticality over audiences. Second, how the journalistic culture (norms, values, practices, etc.) can be transparently projected outward (to the public) or inward (to the journalist themself) to elevate authority – a new concept for journalism studies. Third, how metajournalistic performances of transparency may reveal power dynamics within the journalistic field.

scholarly journals Hedging and Boosting the Rhetorical Structure of English Newspaper Editorials

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Sahar Zarza
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
View Point ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Official Position ◽  
Newspaper Editorials

To present the official position of newspapers effectively to the public, the editors’ awareness of the rhetorical structure and linguistic elements employed in editorials is essential. Yet, no studies have explored the use of hedges and boosters in each rhetorical move of the editorials. To realize the objectives, 240 editorials published in the New York Times (NYT) and New Straits Times (NST) were analyzed at both macro and micro levels. The results revealed that both types of newspapers prefer the use of hedges to boosters in editorials. Furthermore, it was revealed that hedges in the NYT editorials were less frequent than their Malaysian counterpart, while boosters in the NYT were more frequently used than in the NST. This reveals that it is a convention in editorials to be tentative in expressing their view point, while in comparison NYT seems to be more bold, and certain in expressing its stance than NST that is more tentative. In addition, in the NYT hedges and boosters were predominantly found in the third move (Justifying or refuting events) while in the NST they were found in the last move (Articulating position). This distribution could be due to the communicative purpose of each move.

“Don't Know Much About History”: The New York Times 1943 Survey of U.S. History and the Controversy it Generated

2012 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Anne-Lise Halvorsen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
History Education ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Social Studies Education ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Players ◽  
The Media

Background/Context Educators, parents, politicians, and the media often complain that young people know little history and compare them unfavorably to better-educated, earlier generations. However, the charge is exaggerated. Young people have performed poorly on history tests for decades. Students’ poor scores on one test in particular, the focus of this study, caught the nation's attention: the New York Times 1943 survey of college freshmen's history knowledge. Focus of Study This study examines the debate between supporters of history education and supporters of social studies education about the New York Times 1943 survey of college freshmen's history knowledge. In a report on the survey results, the newspaper claimed that these students knew little of their country's history, and not much more about its geography. The study places the survey in the broader context of history and social studies education in the early to mid-twentieth century. The study traces the origins of the survey and the debate between two key players, Allan Nevins and Erling Hunt, and describes reactions to the survey from educators, politicians, the media, and the public. In addition, the study describes how the American Historical Association, the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, and the National Council for the Social Studies counteracted the survey's findings to defend the teaching of history and social studies in the U.S. Research Design This study is a historical examination of the survey and the controversy it generated. The study uses archival resources, primary documents, contemporary newspaper and journal articles, and key players’ private letters, to explain how the survey was developed, reported on, and responded to. Conclusions Although the survey was not the first of its kind, and certainly not the last, and did not result in major changes in history and social studies instruction, it gave defenders of history education and social studies education a national battleground for their war of words. In examining the increased interest in the pedagogical debate on fact-based learning versus historical thinking skills that the survey provoked, this study brings perspective to a long-standing controversy, highlights the tension between advocates of history education and advocates of social studies education, and shows how the public reacted with deep alarm to the survey's results. This study highlights the divisive effects of using a single test to draw conclusions about the state of education. In the conclusion, the study calls for a negotiation by all sides in what are known today as “the history wars.”

INTRODUCTION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1090-1090
Author(s):  
Maria I. New
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Endocrine Society ◽  
Congressional Hearings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Tall Girls ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

This is the report of a conference held December 6 through 9, 1977, at the Kroc Foundation headquarters in Santa Ynez, California. The Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development cosponsored the meeting with the Foundation. The conference was conceived at a time when prescribing estrogens had become controversial among physicians and the public. The treatment of tall girls to limit growth was sufficiently newsworthy to appear as an article in the New York Times Magazine. The occurrence of adenocarcinoma in the daughters of women treated prenatally with diethylstilbestrol was the subject of congressional hearings. It seemed the right time to bring together experts on the risks and benefits of prescribing estrogens to analyze what was known on the subject and to make recommendations on the use of estrogens in treating the young. The publication includes the presentations at the conference, reports of the general discussions, and a summation of conclusion and recommendations. An article is included by Dr. Zev Rosenwaks and colleagues that was not presented but seemed appropriate to the symposium. The reports of the general discussion were made by Dr. Allan Root, University of South Florida. The final summation was drafted by a committee composed of Drs. Conte, Crawford, Gurpide, Levine, New, and Root, and was submitted for comment to all the participants. Carole Bergstein was copy editor. I wish to thank all these people for their help.

Building an Agenda for Regulatory Change: The New York Times Investigates Drug Abuse in U.S. Horse Racing

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan E. Denham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The State ◽  
Regulatory Change ◽  
Horse Racing ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Policy Initiatives

This article addresses how The New York Times, through an investigative series on drug use and catastrophic breakdowns in U.S. horse racing, influenced policy initiatives across a 6-month period. Beginning with the March 25, 2012, exposé “Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys,” the article analyzes how the newspaper helped define policy conversations at both the state and national levels. The article also addresses how the Interstate Horseracing Improvement Act of 2011, a fledgling piece of legislation, became what Kingdon described as a “solution in search of a problem” and thus a political lever in policy deliberations. Long recognized for its capacity to influence the content of other news outlets, the article concludes, The New York Times can also play an important role in legislative arenas, informing lawmakers of salient issues, as well as opportunities for substantive and symbolic policy actions.

scholarly journals Conceptual Metaphors in Political Discourse in Croatian, American and Italian Newspapers

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Nataša Stojan ◽  
Sonja Novak Mijić
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Usa Today ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Abstract In political discourse metaphors are frequently employed for persuading and manipulating the public. The aim of our research is to show whether there are differences in the use of source domains of conceptual metaphors among Croatian politicians in comparison with American and Italian politicians. The corpus of our research consists of political newspaper articles and interviews from Croatian, American and Italian daily newspapers (Jutarnji list, Večernji list, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, ABC, USA Today and The New York Times), downloaded from newspaper archives. We can conclude that metaphorical expressions vary from language to language, but often the same metaphorical expressions appear in all languages. Expressions that frequently recur are victory, attack, battle, race, defense, splay, stage and role. Except for two ontological metaphors in Croatian examples, we can say that there is no major difference in the source domains between Croatian, American and Italian political discourse.

scholarly journals The Balkans and the Southeast Europe in the New York Times, 1998 to 2007

2016 ◽  
pp. 1013-1049
Author(s):  
Sanja Nasevski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media Texts

This work focuses on the research of media texts from the daily newspaper New York Times, which include words ?Balkans?/?Balkan? and ?Southeast Europe?/?Southeastern Europe?, and which were published over ten years period, from 1998 to 2007. Two columns were analyzed, ?Editorials? and ?Opinion?, since they are the best picture of the additude of media towards the subject or issue in question. The special focus was on the context and discourse of the stories about this region, keywords which were used and the question of different approach, depending on the words which authors used to refer to this area - Balkan or Southeast Europe. In order to give a wider picture about the sample, the media texts, this paper will start with the presentation of the New York Times, and after that the research will be presented - the general results, categories, variables and the most important conclusions.

scholarly journals The Effect of Shelter-in-Place Orders on Social Distancing and the Spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Texas

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco A. Castaneda ◽  
Meryem Saygili
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Local Level ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The State ◽  
County Level ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Current State ◽  
Daily Data

Objectives: We study how the state-wide shelter-in-place order affected social distancing and the number of cases and deaths in Texas.Methods: We use daily data at the county level. The COVID-19 cases and fatalities data are from the New York Times. Social distancing measures are from SafeGraph. Both data are retrieved from the Unfolded Studio website. The county-level COVID-related policy responses are from the National Association of Counties. We use an event-study design and regression analysis to estimate the effect of the state-wide shelter-in-place order on social distancing and the number of cases and deaths.Results: We find that the growth rate of cases and deaths is significantly lower during the policy period when the percentage of the population that stays at home is highest. The crucial question is whether the policy has a causal impact on the sheltering percentages. The fact that some counties in Texas adopted local restrictive policies well before the state-wide policy helps us address this question. We do not find evidence that this top-down restrictive policy increased the percentage of the population that exercised social distancing.Discussion: Shelter-in-place policies are more effective at the local level and should go along with efforts to inform and update the public about the potential consequences of the disease and its current state in their localities.

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