brief history of journalism
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Brief History of Journalism. 04:567:480:01 Media Ethics and Law. Early history. Press always connected to government. Licensing developed in England precluded newspapers from criticizing government as “seditious libel.” - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Brief History of Journalism
04:567:480:01Media Ethics and Law
Early history
• Press always connected to government.• Licensing developed in England
precluded newspapers from criticizing government as “seditious libel.”
• Government intricately connected to press through postal legislation. (Earliest newspaper editors were postmasters.)
Even earlier history
• What was the greatest invention in history (’cept for the Internet)?
• Go to next slide for answer…
• What did Gutenberg invent?• When?
A promoter of type
• Who was this man?• What did he do?
• Enrgraving
• Engraving
• Typography
Henry the VIII
• Liked women, a lot.• Came to the throne in 1509.• Did not want England to remain
subservient to the church.
Hen-er-y
• Invented divorce.• Invented “seditious libel.”• Invented “prior restraint.”• Death was one penalty. So was
“unutterable cruelty.”• Prohibited books.
Hen-ery and the pope
• This is Henry.
• This is the pope.
• This is Henry and his wife.
• Henry with one of his real wives.
• But books proliferated anyway.
• Parishioners could read for themselves.
16th century
• Book licensing.• All works had to be submitted to Queen
Elizabeth before publication.• James I and Charles I in the 17th
century (1603-1649) opposed newspapers. But the Corrant out of Italy, Germany, etc. started publishing in Amsterdam and imported to England.
• British government tries a host of licensing measures after 1660.
• By 1700, direct censorship ended.• 1690-1713: eight bills proposed in
Parliament to censor the press, but they failed.
• Licensing Act lapsed in 1695.
Next time…
• America!