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Post by Dubdrifter on Oct 30, 2023 11:30:54 GMT
Just bumped into this U.S. trial of John Peter Zenger in 1734 …. which arguably turned ‘Authority’ upside down … prompted greater Freedoms for the Press … which inevitably led to the American War of Independance. open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/4-2-history-of-newspapers/Interesting stuff … how the dominoes can fall … and corrupt edifices can be pulled down … when a Jury ignores the instruction of the Judge … and acquits!🤔 |
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Post by Dubdrifter on Oct 31, 2023 4:28:45 GMT
From this article we can see that Milton’s Areopagitica disturbingly almost elevates inanimate objects … such as books above a person’s life … thus opening the door for religious fanatics and extremists to commit murder on provocateurs who burn religious texts.
“Although the Areopagitica focused primarily on Parliament’s ban on certain books, it also addressed newspapers. Milton criticized the tight regulations on their content by stating, “Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye (Milton, 1644).” Despite Milton’s emphasis on texts rather than on newspapers, the treatise had a major effect on printing regulations. In England, newspapers were freed from government control, and people began to understand the power of free press.”
…. Also interesting to note later in this article … it ironically reveals the Pulitzer Prize … the most prestigious Press award …. was funded by the man who drove the industry down the road towards tabloid journalism … in competition with Randolph Hearst, he butchered accuracy and mined sensationalism.🙄
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