Newspapers

I. Key Characteristics

A. Nonlinear character of newspaper information

B. Newspapers as central social organ

C. Income

II. Historical Highlights

A. The Printing Press and Fast Dissemination of Information

B. The Importance of Distribution

1. Roads, Canals, Railroads, etc.

2. Post Office (subsidies)

3. The Telegraph: 1844

C. From Advocacy to Objectivity and Sensationalism

1. Mercantile Press

2. Penny Press (1833-1865): Benjamin Day, 1833, New York Sun at 1 cent (vs. 6 cents) a copy;

3. Objective Journalism: Horace Greeley, New York Tribune (1841)

4. Yellow Journalism, 1865-1900: urbanization of US, mass immigrations.