JOUR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Safety Valve, Nonpartisanism, False Advertising

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Journalism
• Course: JOUR 200
• Professor: Ira Chinoy

Document Summary

Revolution and the early republic: press freedom, repression and debate. Growth of urban areas: more of them, and greater density. An increase in the relevance of news to the lives of the colonial population. Friction with england leading to american revolution. Number of prosecutions over sedition and libel declined after this case. Britain at war with france and suffering from debts and war loss (think of colonies as a source of money) Tense relationship over taxation in the colonies. Pivotal events when you whip up agitation you draw in more readers, press began to see itself as a mechanism of public opinion. France and britain have designs on the west. Subsequent british policies that colonists found abusive. You see a shift in the press. The first started meeting at the boston gazette during the time of the stamp act of 1765 and publishing words of resistance. Common sense published anonymously against the monarchy.