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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... truth to block the flow of his vitriol from the New England Courant. James Thomson Callender, who wrote for several papers, might as well have thrust his pen into the soft tissue of his subjects as written about them. Like Callender ...
... truth to block the flow of his vitriol from the New England Courant. James Thomson Callender, who wrote for several papers, might as well have thrust his pen into the soft tissue of his subjects as written about them. Like Callender ...
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... truth was insufficiently compelling or contradictory to their causes; to smear sex scandals across their pages or raise invective to levels previously unknown outside a cockfighting den. Not the type to confuse hyperbole with fact or ...
... truth was insufficiently compelling or contradictory to their causes; to smear sex scandals across their pages or raise invective to levels previously unknown outside a cockfighting den. Not the type to confuse hyperbole with fact or ...
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... truth was not always as important as expediency. Here various news we tell, of love and strife, Of peace and war, health and sickness, death and life, Of loss and gain, of famine and of store, Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore ...
... truth was not always as important as expediency. Here various news we tell, of love and strife, Of peace and war, health and sickness, death and life, Of loss and gain, of famine and of store, Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore ...
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