By Edwin H. / Emery, Edwin -- (editors) Ford
ISBN-10: 0816657696
ISBN-13: 9780816657698
ISBN-10: 0816662452
ISBN-13: 9780816662456
ISBN-10: 0816690235
ISBN-13: 9780816690237
Highlights within the heritage of the yankee Press was once first released in 1954. Minnesota Archive variants makes use of electronic expertise to make long-unavailable books once more obtainable, and are released unaltered from the unique collage of Minnesota Press editions.The articles accumulated during this quantity current a shiny landscape of yankee journalistic historical past from its antecedents within the English ballad singers to the click giants of contemporary instances. given that there's most likely no unmarried strength that has performed a better function within the historical past of the United States than its newspapers, the heritage of journalism tells, in huge degree, the tale of this country's political, social, and monetary improvement. for this reason, this publication of readings deals a lot to the scholars of the yankee scene, earlier and current, whether or not they are common readers or experts in journalism, background, American reports, or any of the social sciences.The 27 articles incorporated the following were selected quite for his or her clarity and authenticity. they're through many various writers and are from a wide selection of periodicals released over the last a hundred years. they're prepared in accordance with six old sessions, masking the increase of the English press, the Colonial press, the nationalistic press of innovative occasions, the preferred press of the Jacksonian democracy, the transition press following the Civil battle, and the trendy period of mass stream. An introductory essay for every staff of articles locations the person reviews in old viewpoint and examines in short the journalistic occasions now not lined intimately by way of the articles themselves. the thing authors contain such remarkable names in American letters as Gamaliel Bradford, Will Irwin, William Allen White, John Dos Passos, and Henry F. Pringle.The coherent presentation of this various fabric might help someone drawn to the yankee newspaper get a greater view of its wide scope, its energetic colour, and its profound effect at the process historical past.
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While these activities were at their height, William Lithgow, the adventurous Scot, was in the city, and found everywhere "new barrocaded posts . . "3 He saw the builders of the defences "marching to the fields and out works . . " Reports of the distant movements of the armies, of battles and sieges, were not so easily secured by the authors as these stories of London's unrest, and for that reason they must have been still more eagerly read. The stories printed of such engagements disclose to the modern world, which is now learning so many new lessons, what military science was like in the seventeenth century.
And how strange the titles now sound, devised, as they were, not simply for identification but for information as well. A continuation of certain speciall and remarkable passages informed to both houses of Parliament and otherwise from divers parts of this kingdome; A perfect diurnall of the passages in Parliament more fully and exactly taken than by any other printed copies, as you will finde upon comparing; Oxford diurnall: communicating the intelligence, and affaires of the court, to the rest of the kingdome; The Kingdomes weekly intelligencer: sent abroad to prevent mis-information.
Bolingbroke and 42 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH PRESS Harley sought by taxation to make opposition papers impossible. While Walpole was constantly urged to more positive action, he never did more than harry the publishers of papers opposed to him by prosecutions for seditious libel. In his time Hardwicke began to use the method of reserving to the courts the decision of whether matter was libellous, leaving to the jury only the question of publication. After the orgy of popular agitation from 1760 to the close of the war, Grenville and his associates seem to have seriously set about the task of restricting within very narrow limits political propaganda appearing in newspapers.
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