Jack The Ripper Analysis

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Jack The Ripper and His Public Relations Almost everyone knows Jack The Ripper to be skilled with a knife, but what most people do not know about The Ripper was that he was just as skilled in the media. This idea of The Ripper being a public relations specialist is made evident in “Ripped Straight From the Headlines: Jack the Ripper 's Public Relations.” by Devon Armijo, Shannon Guess, and Jacquelyn Jizno when it was published through Public Relation Quarterly in 2009. Throughout this article the writers are often writing about the possibility that it could have just been luck the way things worked out for The Ripper or did he maneuvered his way through the media and play with the minds of the people and police. The Ripper campaign left a lasting impression on anyone who had anything to do with his story. Whether it be the people reading the letters to the people who found the bodies, anybody who was apart of The Ripper’s little game would be haunted forever. He knew that some of the letters would make it into the news if he wrote them the right way and he knew it would frustrate the police if everyone started writing fakes as well. The writers believe that The Ripper was of the lower or middle class because during that time the middle class and …show more content…

He would submit selective like news discharges as letters and the media would disseminate them. If he planned this as perfect as it seems then he basically created his own newspaper in a sense. When The Ripper wrote he wrote the letters from the perspective of a lower class person searching for social change. Unlike most lower class people who were not educated and surely were not ready to write in his advanced style. Far surpassing the aptitude level of an uneducated layman, but the way he wrote made it seem like he may have been wealthy early on in his life, but through some misfortune ended up poor and

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