Titanic: One Newspaper, Seven Days, and the Truth That Shocked the World

by Stephen Hines

Overview

Montreal, Monday (6.00 a.m.) April 15, 1912

TITANIC STRUCK AN ICEBERG. SENDS MARCONIGRAM ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE. VIRGINIAN GOING TO HER RESCUE.

From New York, Monday. April 15, 1912

"VESSEL SINKING"

STEAMERS ARE TOWING THE TITANIC. AND ENDEAVOURING TO GET HER INTO THE SHOAL WATER NEAR CAPE RACE. FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEACHING HER.

From New York, Monday night. April 15, 1912

THE WHITE STAR OFFICIALS NOW ADMIT THAT MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST.

News of the Titanic's catastrophic sinking, days after her maiden voyage, shocked the world. The public was frantic for information and answers, and the London Daily Telegraph, the largest circulating newspaper in the world at the time, was charged with the task of relaying what exactly had happened to the luxury liner. But with false reports abounding and no access to survivors, that task was easier said than done.

Read how a paper, and the world, struggled to find and report the truth of the most disastrous maritime accident in history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402256660
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

In the last twenty-four years, Stephen W. Hines has published sixteen books with over 600,000 copies in print. He is the author of Little House in the Ozarks, a Publishers Weekly bestseller, I Remember Laura, and The Quiet Little Woman. Hines lives near Nashville with his family and writes a column for The Nolensville Dispatch.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

DAY ONE

TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1912

Reporting in the Dark: The Daily Telegraph's Dilemma

DAY TWO

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1912

Reality Sinks In

DAY THREE

THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912

Relief Work Commences

DAY FOUR

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1912

Where Were the Lifeboats?

DAY FIVE

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912

All the News That Fits We Print

DAY SIX

SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1912

Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy

(There was no Sunday newspaper.)

DAY SEVEN

MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912

The Blame Game

Aftermath

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a fascinating look at the coverage of the Daily Telegraph of London." — Sunday World-Herald

"Over a dozen films and hundreds of books have told the tragic tale of Titanic's sinking, but coming up on the 100 year anniversary of its icy demise, Hines offers this from the headlines account of the events as they unfolded in the week that followed. No tweets, twitters or cell phone messages in 1912, so news traveled slowly. The first accounts reported that Titanic sunk but everyone survived. The truth emerged bit by bit while the world followed. This book puts the reader in the audience to experience those same emotions. " — Book News

From the Publisher

The 100th anniversary in 2012 of the sinking of Titanic is bringing about a surfeit of books on the subject, and this contribution fills a particular niche. Hines ("I Remember Laura": Laura Ingalls Wilder) reprints the coverage of the disaster by the London Daily Telegraph, the largest circulating newspaper of the time, and adds his own commentary. The results are useful as a gathering of source material (much like the published transcripts of the official U.S. and UK inquires into the sinking) but not completely successful as an examination of contemporary news reporting as suggested in the book's promotional material ("Read how a paper and the world struggled to find and report the truth"). Hines makes the obligatory reference to news being different "before television and Twitter" and notes generally how reporters sometimes fabricated details when none was available. VERDICT The author, in his notes, tut-tuts about the hubris of the ship's owner and builders and of the idea of man conquering nature with an "unsinkable" ship (as all books about Titanic seem to do), but he is good at explaining differences between what was reported in the newspaper articles and what actually happened. Best for Titanic buffs, not necessarily for the general reader.—Megan Hahn Fraser, Univ. of California-Los Angeles Lib.

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