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It was the best of times, it was the worst of
journalism—and it is no small irony that
the former condition led directly to the
latter, that the golden age of America's founding was
also the gutter age of American reporting, that the
most notorious of presses in our nation's history
churned out its copy on the foothills of Olympus.
The Declaration of Independence was literature, but
the New England Courant talked trash. The
Constitution of the United States was philosophy;
the Boston Gazette slung mud. The Gazette of the
United States and the National Gazette were conceived
as weapons, not chronicles of daily events, and as
soon as the latter came into being, the two of them
stood masthead to masthead and fired at each other
without either ceasing or blinking or acknowledging
the limitations of veracity.
There were, of course, exceptions. Some journalism
of the era was cordial: Benjamin Franklin's
pieces, especially in the Pennsylvania Gazette, were
witty and insightful and, more often than not,
absent of malice in any form.
Some journalism was thoughtful: Alexander
Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay collaborated
on The Federalist Papers, first published in New
York's Independent Journal, and they were as scholarly
a collection of essays as have ever appeared in
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HARDCOVERISBN 978-1-58648-334-0 Pub date: 02/27/06 Price: $27.50/37.50 Canada 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 480 pages b/w photos thruout Carton Quantity: 16 History, Journalism Selling Territory: W Rights:
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