Thursday
New Year's Day Murder-blogging
As the commenters aptly note, this 1930 New York Times article about one of Belle's relatives reads more like a good pulp novel than it does a modern day Times article. Besides stylistic differences, there's a wealth of detail included here which I can't imagine seeing today. I'm interested in the causes behind that change, and would speculate they include the increasing professionalism of journalists and police officers so that the two don't cooperate nearly as tightly, which has both good and bad consequences (though good on net, probably). The causes also likely include different privacy norms, which might well themselves have to do with changes in legal liability.
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