問題詳情
People living today in the northwestern state of Washington who have many sourcesof news in addition to newspapers must stretch their imaginations to understand theimportance of the press during much of the state's history. Beginning in 1852 withThe Cohumblan. the first paper in Washington Territory, ,lewspapers served to connectsettlers in frontier communities with each other and with the rnajor events of their times.Unlike many mid-century papers, The Columbian, published every Saturday in Olympia,one of Washington's larger towns, was "neutral in politics," meaning that it was not theorgan of a particular political party or religious group. For its first few years, it was theonly newspaper in the territory, but during the following decades, enterprisingWashingtonians founded many other papers. Few of these papers lasted long. Until theturn of the century, most were the production of an individual editor, who might beginwith insufficient capital or fail to attract a steady readership. Often working with nostaff at all, these editors wrote copy, set type, delivered papers, oversaw billing, andsold advertising. Their highly personal journals reflected their own tastes, politics, andknown as the "Oregon style"--graphic, torrid, and potentially libelous.Early newspapers were thick with print, carrying no illustrations or cartoons.Advertising was generally confined to the back pages and simply listed commoditiesreceived by local stores. Toward the end of the century, newspapers in Washingtonbegan to carry national advertising, especially from patent medicine companies, whichbought space from agencies that brokered ads in papers all over the country. By 1900,Washington boasted 19 daily and 176 weekly papers. Especially in the larger cities, theyreflected less the personal opinions of the editor than the interests of the large businessesthey had become. They subscribed to the Associated Press and United Press newsservices, and new technology permitted illustrations. Concentrating on features, crimereporting, and sensationalism, they imitated the new mass-circulation papers that WilliamRandolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer were making popular throughout the United States.
【題組】1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Ways in which various newspapers were advertised in Washington
(B) The history of newspapers in Washington
(C) Editors of the first Washington newspapers
(D) The illustrations in early Washington newspapers
參考答案
答案：B[無官方正解]
難度：適中0.666667
統計：A(0),B(2),C(2),D(0),E(0)