MMC 2000 Lecture 5 Outline of Last Lecture I Cont of the First Amendment Outline of Current Lecture II Media Literacy III News Papers Current Lecture Media in Flux Media Literacy Our response o Ability and willingness to make an effort to understand content to pay attention and to filter out noise o Understanding of an respect for power of media message o Ability to distinguish emotional from reasoned reactions to media and to act accordingly content o Ability to think critically about media messages Brief History of Newspaper Acta Diurna 1st Century Rome The Action of the Day The Acta Diurna would be hung on the wall at the end of the day detailing what had happen that day in the Roman Senate courts Corantos and Diurnals 17th century Europe Corantos was printed in English on paper and published in Holland about shipping news Diunrais published in England the fore runners of news papers Colonial Press Late 17th to mid 18th Century o Publick Occurrences Both foreign and Domestic 1690 started by Benjamin Harris Left the back page blank for writing more news and the opportunity to share Writes about the government and gets shut down pre 1st amendment o Boston News Letter 1704 started by John Cambell First Real News Paper o Boston Gazette 1719 Provide the first time for competition in the news arena Why Boston The Boston ports were major source of new Location location location o New England Courant Started by James Franklin Benjamin Franklin s older brother in the year 1721 Published Essays Poems Silence do good Started to change the idea of what newspapers could look like opened up the idea for more creativity Ben Franklin started to use advertising for running his newspaper give him the freedom to write freely with out government control o New York Weekly Journal and Zenger Trial Started in 1731 by John Zenger 1734 started to write about the colonial government pointing out corruption He end up being sentence to jail and this is was the end of seditious libels laws Seditious libels laws were laws that punished those who criticized the government
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