"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

Alexander, John; Pasley, Jeffrey L.

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“…However, for this to occur, the media must uphold their self-imposed standards of integrity. Whereas newspapers of the 19th century, were owned and produced by political parties, and readers expected to encounter partisan and biased reporting, (Jamieson & Waldman, 2003;Pasley, 2001;Schudson, 1978), it is no longer practiced. A notable turning point for the standards of journalism could be attributed to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's second run for the presidency in 1937, when his campaign manager made accusations of media bias (Farley, 1938).…”

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A Triad of Crisis Communication in the United States

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Slade

2012

International Journal of Technoethics

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The United States experienced a core-shaking tumble from their pedestal of superpower at the beginning of the 21st century, facing three intertwined crises which revealed a need for change: the financial system collapse, lack of proper healthcare and government turmoil, and growing impatience with the War on Terror. This paper explores the American governments’ and citizens’ use of social network sites (SNS), namely Facebook and YouTube, to conceptualize and debate about national crises, in order to bring about social change, a notion that is synonymous with societal improvement on a national level. Drawing on democratic theories of communication, the public sphere, and emerging scholarship on the Right to Communicate, this study reveals the advantageous nature of SNS for political means: from citizen to citizen, government to citizen, and citizen to government. Furthermore, SNS promote government transparency, and provide citizens with a forum to pose questions to the White House, exchange ideas, and generate goals and strategies necessary for social change. While it remains the government’s responsibility to promote such exchanges, the onus remains with citizens to extend their participation to active engagement outside of SNS if social change is to occur. The Obama Administration’s unique affinity to SNS usage is explored to extrapolate knowledge of SNS in a political context during times of crises.

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A Triad of Crisis Communication in the United States

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2012

International Journal of Technoethics

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“…In fact, during the country's formative years, newspapers were primarily established and financed by political parties, 1 and had names that reflected such party affiliations. 2 It wasn't until the 1920s that most newspapers switched to an independent affiliation (Gentzkow et al, 2006), though their partisan preferences were still reflected in their tendency to endorse one party over another 1 See Pasley (2001) for a detailed accounting of the origins of newspapers and their strong political and partisan affiliations in early American history.…”

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The Influence of Biased Local Newspaper Endorsements

DeLuca

2023

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This paper investigates the direct effects of political endorsements on election results. I analyze county-level vote shares in statewide elections for Governor and U.S. Senate, where voters across the state participate in the same election but are "treated" with different local newspaper exposure. I find that credible endorsements have a small but statistically significant effect on vote shares of about 1.3 percentage points. I also demonstrate that county-level newspaper bias and vote shares are positively correlated, and that candidate quality can explain about three-fourths of the raw correlation between newspaper endorsements and electoral performance. In aggregate, endorsement effects only change election outcomes in a small subset of very close elections, but in those cases endorsements almost always help the higher quality candidate win. The results suggest that local newspapers can help improve political outcomes and that some voters may rely on newspaper endorsements to inform their perceptions of candidate quality.

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"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

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A Triad of Crisis Communication in the United States

A Triad of Crisis Communication in the United States

The Influence of Biased Local Newspaper Endorsements

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