The Past as Persuader in The Great Speckled Bird

Abstract

This study examines journalistic uses of history in the underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird during its original run, 1968 to 1976, based on Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest K. May's categories of the uses of history by political decision makers. The Bird used history for context, nostalgia and analogy, to promote values, and to challenge past assumptions, all to bolster a point of view for its readers, the hippie community in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Janice Hume

JANICE HUME is professor and head of the journalism department in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia. She would like to thank the Georgia State University Library for allowing digital access to The Great Speckled Bird.