JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: James Mill, Penny Press, Prefabrication
23 Sep 2020
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Newspapers are a mean of horizontal communication it is a channel for people to talk to each other it is not a way for people to put aside their individualism. Newspapers are in the business of making things common. Newspapers have a way of transmitting information to all people over a vast geographic region. Tocqueville ended up being a better philosopher than a historian. He said that newspapers should not pursue commercial means but need to act. Many people say his arguments are just as valid today as they were over 100 only in the civic interest. years ago. Penny press 1830-1840"s this allowed people of all classes to afford a newspaper. It was the beginning of a mass media market in this country. It facilitated a mass means of communication with news simply by lowering the price of the paper.
