JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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They were largely politically neutral
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They focused on a broad variety of issues
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More newspapers were printed in America compared to Europe
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Newspapers were only a small percentage of all postal traffice
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Detailed explanation-1: -The American Colonial Period: 1898-1946 The American regime saw the introduction of new newspapers published mostly by American journalists: The Manila Times (1898), The Bounding Billow and Official Gazette (1898), Manila Daily Bulletin (1900), and Philippine Free Press (1908).
Detailed explanation-2: -Technological advancements such as the telegraph and faster printing presses in the 1840s also helped to expand the press of the nation as it experienced rapid economic and demographic growth. Editors typically became the local party spokesman, and hard-hitting editorials were widely reprinted.
Detailed explanation-3: -America’s first continuously-published newspaper, the Boston News-Letter published its first issue on April 24, 1704. John Campbell, a bookseller and postmaster of Boston, was its first editor, printing the newspaper on what was then referred to as a half-sheet.
Detailed explanation-4: -Newspapers flourished, dramatically, in early nineteenth-century America. By the 1830s the United States had some 900 newspapers, about twice as many as Great Britain-and had more newspaper readers, too.