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American Newspaper

Name: American Newspaper
Author: Will Irwin

Will Irwin

Read by progressingamerica, Kyle Stedman, Robert Morel, Elsie Selwyn, Rita Boutros, J. M. Smallheer, Tatiana Chichilla, kevinscottwiebe and TonyMezz · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The Power of the Press (21:18)
The Dim Beginnings (31:24)
The Fourth Current (48:45)
The Spread and Decline of Yellow Journalism (27:24)
What Is News? (21:36)
The Editor and the News (30:18)
The Reporter and the News (40:30)
All the News That's Fit to Print (26:08)
The Advertising Influence (33:03)
The Unhealthy Alliance (33:43)
Our Kind of People (22:16)
The Foe from Within (36:42)
The New Era (28:41)
The Press of Two Cities (28:30)
The Voice of a Generation (31:11)