The media does not enjoy an exalted position in public opinion. Polls continue to show an eroding confidence in the American media. Without question, the media deserves much of the mistrust directed toward it. However, just as the media has become more divisive and biased in one respect, it has also acquired a certain positive trait. In one respect, the current media resembles the eighteenth-century press that reflected and energized American democracy.
The American press during the eighteenth-century, and particularly
during the revolutionary era, was a highly competitive press that
actively engaged its public audience. It was highly partisan and
intensely opinionated, but also very much participatory, in terms of
involving the public in the political debate. Readers of the pamphlets
and newspapers often published their own views in the pages of the
colonial press............To Read More....
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