History of Journalism in the United States
HISTORY OF JOURNALISM
IN THE UNITED STATES
HISTORY OF JOURNALISM
IN THE UNITED STATES
BY
GEORGE HENRY PAYNE
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORKLONDON
1920
copyright, 1920, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
THE MEMORY OF
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
WHO UNDERSTOOD THE NEWSPAPER—
AND NEWSPAPERMEN
CONTENTS
chapter
page
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vii |
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ix |
I |
Historic Preparation for Journalism
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1 |
II |
The First Newspaper in America
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12 |
III |
The First Journals and Their Editors
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23 |
IV |
Philadelphia and the Bradfords
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35 |
V |
Printing in New York—The Zenger Trial
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45 |
VI |
Rise of Fourth Estate
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59 |
VII |
The Assumption of Political Power
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76 |
VIII |
The "Boston Gazette" and Samuel Adams
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100 |
IX |
Journalism and the Revolution
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116 |
X |
After the Revolution
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135 |
XI |
Growth of the Party Press
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153 |
XII |
The Editor and the Government
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164 |
XIII |
Adams and the Alien and Sedition Laws
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176 |
XIV |
Hamilton and the "Evening Post"
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190 |
XV |
Emigration and the Papers of the West
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200 |
XVI |
Suffrage and Slavery
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217 |
XVII |
Newspapers and the Capital
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230 |
XVIII |
Penny Papers and the "New York Sun"
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240 |
XIX |
James Gordon Bennett and the "Herald"
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255 |
XX |
Greeley and the "Tribune"
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269 |
XXI |
The "Times" and Greeley's Triumph
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282 |
XXII |
The Autocracy of the Slaveholders
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295 |
XXIII |
Civil War
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307 |
XXIV |
After the War
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325 |
XXV |
Editors of the New School
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336 |
XXVI |
After-War Problems and Reform
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347 |
XXVII |
The Melodrama in the News
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360 |
XXVIII |
Conclusion
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370 |
A—The Beginning of "Newes"
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383 |
B—The Character of William Bradford
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384 |
C—Bryant Index Expurgatorius
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386 |
D—Horace Greeley's Famous Letter to William H. Seward
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387 |
E—Growth of Newspapers from 1776 to 1840
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393 |
F—Statistics of the Daily and Weekly Newspapers in the U. S. in 1840
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394 |
G—Newspaper Postage Rates for One Year
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396 |
H—Zenger's Trial
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397 |
I—The Sun-Herald Merger
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398 |
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399 |
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429 |
HISTORY OF JOURNALISM
IN THE UNITED STATES