JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sedation, Seditious Libel, Mao Zedong
17 Sep 2020
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Internet is bringing freedom and democracy to china . U. s. press was subsidized by the government. Post office was central to development of press and democracy. Before revolution: 67 offices, 4. 5 per look. They thought that without it the country couldn"t develop economically. Postal subsidies critical to building national news network. First amendment was worked out in this inter-party conflict. Late 1790s: us faced war with france. Benjamin franklin bache arrested for seditious libel . Governmental power over media they didn"t like. Subsidized by postal employment and government advertisement. Subsidized by postal employment and government advertisements. 19th century consumer markets: cutlery, guns, boots, clothing, mass produced goods. 1833: new york sun was the new breed of newspaper. Penny papers spread from ny to baltimore. About difference between . 22 today and . 25. 1835: new york sun selling 20,000 copies a day. Papers we sell today are still descendants of these. Made to make profit, not conduct politics.
