Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American JournalismPublicAffairs, 13. 2. 2007. - 480 страница Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and renowned media historian Eric Burns tells of Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Sam Adams -- the leading journalists among the Founding Fathers; of George Washington and John Adams, the leading disdainers of journalists; and Thomas Jefferson, the leading manipulator of journalists. These men and the writers who abused and praised them in print (there was, at the time, no job description of "journalist") included the incendiary James Franklin, Ben's brother and one of the first muckrakers; the high minded Thomas Paine; the hatchet man James Callender, and a rebellious crowd of propagandists, pamphleteers, and publishers. It was Washington who gave this book its title. He once wrote of his dismay at being "buffited in the public prints by a set of infamous scribblers." The journalism of the era was often partisan, fabricated, overheated, scandalous, sensationalistic and sometimes stirring, brilliant, and indispensable. Despite its flaws -- even because of some of them -- the participants hashed out publicly the issues that would lead America to declare its independence and, after the war, to determine what sort of nation it would be. |
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... least expected. Italics materialize where they had seldom materialized before and have not shown themselves since. Commas and colons and semicolons seem sprinkled between the words, rather than placed with a purpose. The spelling is ...
... least expected. Italics materialize where they had seldom materialized before and have not shown themselves since. Commas and colons and semicolons seem sprinkled between the words, rather than placed with a purpose. The spelling is ...
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... least in one of its later models, five feet long. It turned out to be such an improvement on its predecessors that both Beethoven and Mozart are said to have written pieces for it. But Americans did not just listen to music. Sometimes ...
... least in one of its later models, five feet long. It turned out to be such an improvement on its predecessors that both Beethoven and Mozart are said to have written pieces for it. But Americans did not just listen to music. Sometimes ...
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... least at the outset, who made up a majority of the readers. One can only speculate, then, about why there was such a contrast between the values of the budding nation and the tone of its reporting. Why did one newspaper dismiss a ...
... least at the outset, who made up a majority of the readers. One can only speculate, then, about why there was such a contrast between the values of the budding nation and the tone of its reporting. Why did one newspaper dismiss a ...
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... least to some extent, a veneer. And perhaps, and most likely, the colonists concluded that there was simply too much at stake in those days for the luxury of restraint. They had come to America to be governed more compassionately than ...
... least to some extent, a veneer. And perhaps, and most likely, the colonists concluded that there was simply too much at stake in those days for the luxury of restraint. They had come to America to be governed more compassionately than ...
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... least not as we know them today. Instead, as Peter Ackroyd tells us, there was the broadside, a sheet printed on one side which bore the latest news and the newest sensations. From the earliest years of the sixteenth century this was ...
... least not as we know them today. Instead, as Peter Ackroyd tells us, there was the broadside, a sheet printed on one side which bore the latest news and the newest sensations. From the earliest years of the sixteenth century this was ...
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