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Rumpus Book ClubThe Day The Newspaper Died
The New Yorker‘s Jill Lepore on the birth of the newspapers and the current newspaper death watch. Lepore places the newspaper in context of early American political struggle and how even Thomas Jefferson had his doubts about “the unbounded liberty of the press.” She also has this to say, “Some struggles never end. And it’s not the newspaper that’s forever at risk of dying and needing to be raised from the grave. It’s the freedom of the press.”
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