WOMAN SURVIVES B’KLYN BRIDGE JUMP! (1900)
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Yellow Journalism was in its heyday in 1900, and Joseph Pulitzer’s “World” was right up there at the top of the whole heap of it.
This is an example of the hype that existed back then, drawing readers into a version of the world that was part real and part made-up.
The subject of this splashy front page story, Marie Rosalie Dinse, came to be the second woman to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge. Dinse, amazingly, survived this “mad leap,” surprising the physicians who attended her.
While the New York World reporter who wrote this story included a number of facts in his story, he also took liberties to suppose a number of many more, weaving an account that was sure to enthrall readers and – more importantly – sell newspapers:
“As she crossed the bridge the river looked so restful,” read the World article. “There was peace there.
“She sought it.”
The truth was, simply, she lost money is a boarding-house speculation.
After the fall, she was taken to an asylum for treatment.
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