Media Monuments and Hooded Headlines.

American papers typically assumed that the victims of lynchings were guilty and deserved their fate, publishing boldface headlines such as "NEGRO BRUTE LYNCHED" (The Washington Post, August 2, 1899); "A FEARFUL RIDE OF DEATH. Wells had written to the paper in response to a Post editorial criticizing her anti-lynching campaign. Newspapers Defended Slavery THERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES, MOSTLY in the North and West, of long-lived newspapers that, as far as I can tell, did not publish ads for slaves, including The New York Times. Similarly lurid reports, which would have attracted curious readers and meant greater profits from newspaper sales, were also published and reprinted nationwide by the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of others. [Extracted from the article]