Jamira Ali

Mass Media 2503

May 4, 2016

Cheaper newsprint, mechanized printing and the telegraph, which

meant that the newspaper could reach a wider audience faster than
before.

Educated urban audiences

Gained new readers

This expansion resulted in new developments for American

newspapers: frontier journalism, ethnic and cultural newspapers, and
the alternative press.

Journalists often used newspapers as a way to oppose the new

government.

Law passed by congress in 1978, were the federal governments first

attempt to control its critics.

Anyone who went against congress wishes and printed false

scandalous writings could be fined $2,000 and jailed for two years.

Several journalists went to jail.