Factory Fire Research Paper

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From 141 Die in Factory Fire 1911 The press can play a huge role in shaping the public opinion about the role of the government. Everyone in America reads some sort of press product, newspaper, magazine, etc. Account demonstrates the important role the press can play in shaping public opinion about the role of government. The press states their opinions about different things. These comments can cause the public change their views about the government because of one opinion. This then causes riots about any subject. The press sharing public opinion about the role of government influence political attitudes, aids in the development of public opinion, intermediary between people and government, questions motives and purpose of government, play important role in public agenda, less clear if they change the public opinion but then people tend to watch channels that follow their political beliefs. The press plays a central role in informing the public about what happens in the …show more content…

The building was fireproof. It shows now hardly any signs of the disaster that overtook it. The walls are as good as ever so are the floors, nothing is the worse for the fire except the furniture and 141 of the 600 men and girls that were employed in its upper three stories. Most of the victims were suffocated or burned to death within the building, but some who fought their way to the windows and leaped met death as surely, but perhaps more quickly, on the pavements below. The news account contains vivid eyewitness testimony about the fire and the horrible, painful deaths it caused. Accounts such as this one can rally public opinion and force the government to more closely regulate working conditions in factories and other

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