Burns recounts impact of colonial newspapers on early American culture [video 65min]

In Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism, FOX News anchor Eric Burns explains that, since Boston's Publick Occurrences newspaper of the 1690s, the Founding Fathers continously made headlines and were subject to both character assassinations and outright fabrications. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.