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U S Newspapers Fight for Truth in Free Press History
A National Press Week piece by Bob Considine surveys the evolution of American journalism from colonial censors to a free press, citing London’s Times, Zenger, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Luce-Hutchins debates on censorship and duty to truth. It stresses the press as a public check on power and a force in shaping national history.
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Bob Considine
New York
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United States
Times of London
U. S
Washington
Whitehall
America
Commission On the Freedom of the Press
Henry Luce
Time, Inc
Robert Hutchins
John P. Zenger
New York Weekly Journal
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
L’ Independent
New Orleans
Iwi
Free Press