Chris Daly has just started a blog for a book he’s been working on about the history of newspapers. I’ve read a big chunk of an early draft, which I enjoyed and learned a lot from. The first two chapters of the book are posted there, covering 1704-1832, in which you’ll hear how newspapers’ nonpartisanship came originally not from a high-minded commitment to truth but from a desire by printers to sell to people of every belief. (Thanks to Dan Bricklin for the link and for introducing me to Chris.) [Tags: chris_daly newspapers journalism ]

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