MCOM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The New-England Courant, William Randolph Hearst, John Herschel
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Newspapers are the only media outlet willing to spend large sums of money into researching, reporing, and prining news. Almost every media source that you look at relies on the newspaper. Comes out on a regular basis (weekly or daily) Targets a mass general audience (trying to be everything for everyone) Colonial newspapers (1704-1776: first newspapers published in the american colonies, mouthpieces of government (never challenged government, run by government oicials or local print shops, contained mostly foreign news. When ships came over from england, they"d take english papers and re- print them for americans. First newspaper that challenged authority; set precedent to challenge those in power. James franklin 1721-1726 (was arrested and jailed several imes because of his criical wriing) Parisan press (1776-1890s: newspapers funded and run by poliical paries, newspapers that were parisan not objecive. Had opinion, were intenionally biased: newspapers were an organ of poliics rather than an observer of poliics.