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Source: NPR "On the Media"
Roundup
6-3-06

Founding Propagandists [audio 12min]

All lofty pretensions aside, American journalism was actually founded by a combination of crusading publishers, government leakers, and opinion writers who never used their real names. That’s according to the new book Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. Author (and Fox News host) Eric Burns speaks with Brooke Gladstone about an early American press that didn’t care much about fairness, balance, or accuracy.
Read entire article at NPR "On the Media"