Footnotes

  1. Mark Neuzil and Bill Kovarik, Mass Media and Environmental Conflict, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996.
  2. Joseph A. Pratt, "Letting the Grandchildren Do It: Environmental Planning During the Ascent of Oil as the Major Energy Source," The Public Historian 2, No. 4 (Fall, 1980), p. 28.
  3. Dorothy Nelkin, Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions (London: Sage Publications, 1979), p. 9.
  4. Nelson Smith and Leonard J. Theberge, Energy Coverage Media Panic (New York: Longman, 1983), p. 142. Also, see ; Edith Efron, The Apocalyptics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), p. 30; Rothman, S., and Lichter, R., "The Media, Elite Conflict and Risk Perception in Nuclear Energy Policy," American Political Science Association (Washington, DC, Aug. 1986), p. 1. Also, see: Sale, K. 1993. The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992. New York: Hill & Wang.
  5. Gaylord Nelson, "History of Earth Day," Oct. 6, 1990 speech, www.mit.edu/bruceand/EarthDay95/history.html
  6. Mitchell Stephens, A History of News, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997, p. 2.
  7. C.F. Holder, "Crime of a Century," Scientific American, December 9, 1899, p. 378-9.
  8. "Millinery Murder," Living Age, June 27, 1906.
  9. New York World, May 21, 1928, May 22, 1928, June 7, 1928,
  10. "Roosevelt Refuses to Hunt," New York Times, Sept. 29, 1908, p. 1:2.
  11. Samuel Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement 1890-1920 (NY Athenaeum 1959). Also Carolyn Merchant, "The Women of the Progressive Conservation Crusade: 1900-1915," in Environmental History, ed., Kendall E. Bailes (New York: University Press, 1985).
  12. "The Pollution of Rivers," New York Times editorial, Nov. 7, 1925, p. 14:3.
  13. Herbert Hoover, speaking to Will Dilg, President of the Isaac Walton League, after the tabling of an anti-pollution bill March 3, 1924. Douglas C. Drake, "Herbert Hoover, Ecologist: The Politics of Oil Pollution Control, 1921 - 1926," Mid America, July 1973, vol. 55, p. 207-228.
  14. Ponder, Steve 1990. "The Progressive Drive to Shape Public Opinion 1898-1913," Public Relations Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 1990.
  15. Personal communication with Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), October 9, 1992.
  16. Peter N. Stearns, "Trends in Social History," in Michael Kammen, ed., The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1980), p. 211.