JOUA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Santayana, Chicago Tribune
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Technology keeps changing the way that we communicate and distribute ideas an information. The history of journalism: 1400s -- guttenberg press, 1700s -- newspapers, magazines, 1800s -- telegraph, telephone, 1900s -- film, radio, television, 2000s -- social media, mobile. Journalism is sometimes referred to as the "first draft of history. : media serves as public record, not only of significant events that have happened in the past, but what people were thinking, saying, and doing at those times. "those who don"t remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- george. Santayana: without the news, we do not know what is happening, and thus, issues would be fixed and learned from, news as a public record, wwii ends, newspaper published in 1940s with the headline, "great war ends!" Subheading states, "japs will surrender to general m "arthur. "
