Advocacy, Editorial Opinion, and Agenda Building: How Publicity Friends Fought for Louis D. Brandeis’s 1916 Supreme Court Confirmation

Coyle, Erin K.; Fondren, Elisabeth; Richard, J. G.

doi:10.1080/08821127.2020.1750884

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“…World War I prompted all governments to realize that they needed to cultivate and sustain a positive image. Yet the ways in which the Germans failed to manage bad publicity during the war and instead asserted their righteousness, even during times of crisis, reflects their limited understanding of what modern publicity could do (Coyle et al, 2020;Fondren 2019). This further escalated their reputation as bad communicators.…”

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Fighting an Armed Doctrine: The Struggle to Modernize German Propaganda During World War I (1914–1918)

Fondren

2021

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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During the First World War (1914–1918), all belligerent governments realized that propaganda proficiency was critical to selling their causes and stirring up support for the war. Yet German propagandists in particular struggled to master mass media, manage their messages, and build audience trust during the Great War in their goal to control domestic and foreign public opinion. Although previous scholarship has agreed that the German propaganda machine failed, little has been said about how Germany recognized these failures early on and sought to remedy them through increasingly modern propaganda strategies—even if those strategies were ultimately no match for the public’s growing distrust of official information. This monograph examines how it was that more institutions, more manpower, new publicity initiatives, copying tactics from enemies, crowdsourcing ideas, and eventually focusing on visuals and film did little to boost morale at home or improve Germany’s reputation abroad. The findings rest on a historical analysis of military dispatches, federal policy documents, letters, news stories, propaganda materials, and memoirs located in German and U.S. archives. Although many of the methods and tactics these early propagandists used would fail, others would become part of the universal toolbox governments still rely on to influence people’s views and spread information.

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Fighting an Armed Doctrine: The Struggle to Modernize German Propaganda During World War I (1914–1918)

Fondren

2021

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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“…Research has repeatedly demonstrated that by choosing which court cases to cover and how to frame the legal and social issues involved, the news media can influence public awareness of and opinions about those issues and the U.S. Supreme Court itself (Haider-Markel et al, 2006; Hester & Gibson, 2007; Hitt & Searles, 2018; Zilis, 2015). However, limited research has specifically examined the impact of civil rights-related SMOs that seek to influence media coverage of U.S. Supreme Court rulings (Coyle et al, 2020; Lazarus, 2007). Using Masterpiece Cakeshop as a case study, this project examines the extent to which SMOs were involved in the court case through traditional advocacy communication channels, in addition to more formal legal methods such as the filing of amicus curiae “friend of the court” briefs.…”

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The effects of journalistic routines on LGBTQ+ advocates’ efforts to influence media framing of religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws

Gibson

2023

Newspaper Research Journal

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In-depth interviews with 26 journalists from large mainstream news outlets who covered the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission U.S. Supreme Court case indicate that LGBTQ+ advocacy organization efforts to influence journalists’ decision-making processes related to story angle and sourcing were unsuccessful. Instead, journalists relied on official court documents as sources, avoiding press advisories from social movement organizations in an effort to maintain neutrality and impartiality.

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Advocacy, Editorial Opinion, and Agenda Building: How Publicity Friends Fought for Louis D. Brandeis’s 1916 Supreme Court Confirmation

Cited by 2 publications

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Fighting an Armed Doctrine: The Struggle to Modernize German Propaganda During World War I (1914–1918)

Fighting an Armed Doctrine: The Struggle to Modernize German Propaganda During World War I (1914–1918)

The effects of journalistic routines on LGBTQ+ advocates’ efforts to influence media framing of religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws

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