{"id":35402,"date":"2015-09-22T16:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=35402"},"modified":"2015-09-22T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:15:28","slug":"discussing-the-role-of-newspapers-at-geography-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/09\/discussing-the-role-of-newspapers-at-geography-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing the role of newspapers at Geography MA speaker series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The Geography MA speaker series at Brock University returns Oct. 9 with Associate Professor of Geography Phillip Gordon Mackintosh.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35403\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-22-at-4.09.19-PM.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35403\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-35403\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-22-at-4.09.19-PM.png\" alt=\"Phillip Gordon Mackintosh\" width=\"226\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillip Gordon Mackintosh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In his talk <em>Newspaper City: The difficulties of making historical cities from broadsheets<\/em>, Mackintosh explores how the\u00a0antagonisms between newspapers and journalism as fourth estate caretakers of public idealism and peddlers\u00a0of salaciousness make\u00a0the newspaper an ironic primary source.<\/p>\n<p>In filling their pages with advertising from anyone willing to pay, while positioning their editorials to reflect ownership, from political, to economic, to religious ideologues, newspapers taint the information they pass \u2013 and we accept \u2013 as history.<\/p>\n<p>Mackintosh, whose primary research interest is the role of bourgeois culture in the historical production of public space in the North American modern city, will speak from noon-2 p.m.\u00a0in Room MC C405.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geography MA series at Brock University returns Oct. 9 with Associate Professor of Geography Phillip Gordon Mackintosh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[68,3377,790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35407,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402\/revisions\/35407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}