Journalists today have the freedom to report the truth, without fear of reprimand from the government, or other people. It is common to see newspapers questioning a senate vote, or a blog offering dissent for the president. Although the First Amendment technically declared the freedom of the press, it was not always as free as […]
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Near vs. Minnesota – how censorship was banned in America
Posted by: bellen | September 29, 2010 | No Comment |The Saturday Press was established in 1927 in Minneapolis by Jay Near and Howard Guilford. The Saturday Press wrote stories which claimed that there were ties between organized crime, the police and city officials. Every issue in the Saturday Press attacked some aspect of the government in Minneapolis, especially the city and county officials. When […]
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Tags: bellen, Ellen Black, first amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Press freedom
Where would the first amendment be without John Peter Zenger?
Posted by: bellen | September 22, 2010 | No Comment |There is no free society without a free press. Why were James Madison and George Mason adamant that freedom of the press was necessary in the newly formed America? They may have remembered the trial of John Peter Zenger. John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who was a printer. He supported himself mainly by […]
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Tags: bellen, Ellen Black, John Peter Zenger, Press freedom, reporters, reporting
When we discuss press freedom in our History of Journalism class, we usually center our discussions on government restrictions on publications throughout history. These governments would target newspapers which blasted authoritative figures, examples being kings and the Catholic Church. Today, the press has various high-impact public figures to blast, and restrictions (at least in the […]
In class, we like to talk about how we’ve come full-circle in many aspects of news coverage. Using the Internet, we have expanded our “Edge,” much like people did hundreds of years ago with the invention of written news. Our wire services are influenced by a collaboration between New York newspapers, who sent reporters on […]
Johann Gutenberg‘s name — and the year 1450 — will forever be linked to the printing press, but there is more credit to go around. Chinese civilizations introduced movable type in 950, according to the chronological timeline in Mitchell Stephens‘ “A History of News.” As it follows, early Chinese news publication systems were some of […]