Control of immigrant press advertising let nativists dictate newspaper content

Evidence

Miss Kellor eliminated the chicanery and political partisanship of Hammerling’s régime, while continuing to use the association to control the policies of its member newspapers. The association’s stranglehold on national advertising enabled it to flood immigrant editors’ columns with patriotic articles, admonitions against emigration to Europe, and anti-radical propaganda. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1553

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media consensus on national identity shapes news without conspiracy or coercion. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 184; Caste groups control media access through business-linked advertising revenue; Media reproduce dominant ideology through impartial professional norms rather than overt bias — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 920

Broader Connections

• Caste groups control media access through business-linked advertising revenue #corroborates (0.80)
• Media consensus on national identity shapes news without conspiracy or coercion. #corroborates (0.78) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 184
• Media reproduce dominant ideology through impartial professional norms rather than overt bias #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 920