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Focusing on journalism in the USA, this study traces the development of news as political commentary from the American Revolution through the 19th century, when newspapers first became aware of their role in a new democracy, to the emergence of "muck-raking" in the 20th century
Many books have shown that journalists have political power, but none have offered a more wide-ranging account of how they got it. The Power of the Press is a pioneering look at the birth of political journalism. Before the American Revolution, Thomas Leonard notes, the press in…