Comm455/History of Journalism

1930’s: The Great Depression dominated most of this decade; Prohibition ends in 1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt renews hope by using the radio (to conduct fireside chats) and starting a series of programs to boost the economy, otherwise known as the New Deal Fascism was on the rise: Hitler and Nazi party came to power in Germany; Benito Mussolini rose to […]

“The very basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” —Thomas Jefferson, […]