Set #3 MSTD 300
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- Joseph Pulitzer
- Publisher now famous for his prestigious prizs for journalism and literature
- Henry David Thoreau
- Wrote skeptically about the telegraph as an "improved means to an unimproved end."
- Benjamin Franklin
- The press can not only strike while the iron is hot, it can heat the iron by striking
- Lord John Action
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
- Mashall MacLuhan
- We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
- Francois Voltaire
- I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it
- Horace Greeley
- New York Tribune "penny press" editor who famously said "Go west, young man."
- Ida B. Wells
- Exposed evils of Memphis lynch mobs in 1890s
- Samuel and John Adams
- Saw newspapers as political engines for the American Revolution
- James Gordon Bennett
- New York Herald "penny press" editor who pioneered news reporting
- John Milton
- Argued that truth would prevail in a free marketplace of ideas
- John Peter Zenger
- New York printer whose 1735 seditious libel trial ended in victory for free press
- Louis Daguerre
- Invented Photography
- Baron de Montesque
- Invented three par systm of government to check excess government power
- Paul Revere
- Engraving of the Boston Massacre inflamed public opinion in 1770
- Thomas Jefferson
- Argued for religious freedom in Virginia
- Samuel Morse
- Invened the magnetic telegraph and an easy to use code
- Cato Letters
- Reasoned that free speech was necessary
- Santayana
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
- John Locke
- Conceived of the "social contact" to protect "life liberty and property