After reading Chapter 1, you should know and understand: - the history, heroes, legends, myths and folklore of journalism;
- how newspapers were established in America;
- how the fight for a free press in America led to the Revolutionary War;
- how innovations in printing in the early 19th century led to the development of the Penny Press, a new kind of newspapering for the masses;
- how yellow journalism gave reporters a bad name; and
- what the various forms of mass media are today and how they operate.
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