COMM245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Underground Press, United Media, New York Weekly
24 Jan 2017
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Posting a notice - in early colonial america, nailing news to doorpost. Guttenberg"s printing press allowed for mass production and his fellow germans pioneered newspaper production in the early 1600s. Americas 1st newspaper = publick occurrences published by benjamin harris in. The boston news-letter = 1704, first american paper to last more than 1 issue. Seditious libel laws: laws established in colonial america that made it illegal to criticize government or its representatives. Early newspapers were published weekly at best, about 4 pages long, inaccurate, included rumors, got distributed very slowly. The zenger case: publisher of new york weekly, accused governor of stealing land, put on trial and jury found him not guilty (same idea behind freedom of the press) Mercantile press: newspapers that provided news of business and shipping. The stamp act - tax of 1 cent on every published paper document, incl. each copy of newspaper. Federalist papers: essays that explained the new federal government to early.
