Chapter 11 Flashcards
When was the licensing act expired?
1695 it made possible for literary journals to be published in England and the colonies.
Who was Peter Zinger?
Tried for seditious libel but found him innocent against judge’s instructions
What was the Stamp Act?
England required printers to pay for a stamp on each page printed.
Newspaper refused to pay for their stamps as they realized they could get away with civil disobedience.
MAJOR contribution to unite the colonies for independence.
Influences of newspapers?
Boston Tea Party planned by the Gazette editor which led to the intolerable acts.
Sons of Liberty-came out of the Providence Gazette
Newspapers made Americans more hostile towards the British
Common Sense that said to boycott British goods
What was a revolutionary letter?
Letters from a farmer in Penn
it was reprinted and fueled revolutionary fever
What was the underground press?
Also known as the “Pauper Press” which was an underground press from 1765-1968. Topics ranged from drug use, vietnam war, pop culture. Penny press for the working class also ignored the stamp tax
Women in Journalism?
Woman were not allowed to work except under special circumstances. Anna Zenger published New Yoork Weekly Journal when husband was awaiting sedition.
Women would inherit print shops. Diana Nuthead was the first woman to apply for a license to print.
What did France think of free press?
Without controls on the press is like a society without a king, unstable
When was press not always free in the US?
During the Civil war abolitionist newspapers were shutdown.
What were French press regulations?
Could not be published without privilege from the king, prohibited on threat of death from attacking religion, stirring up passions
What were libelles
underground newsbooks that was part truth/sensationalism
What led to France free press?
King Louis only let his people report and left the public scared and wanting free press
T OR F: Absence of reliable news may actually be more destabilizing than bad news
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