The Newspaper and Authority

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Oxford University Press, 1923 - 505 páginas
 

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Publicity committees
314
Difficulties for the historian created by press bureaus
320
The Bulletin de Paris
322
Complaint of influence of Austrian press
327
Wolff News Agency
333
Its characteristics in neutral countries
341
Punitive censorship during the
344
Servia and Austria
348
Ultimate failure of propaganda inevitable
355
Every country favors its own propaganda
359
Variety in form and in degree of regulation of the press
360
A Square Deal for the Public
365
Report of W Götz on the Ala
371
Importance of determining
387
Influence of The Times under Delane
396
English press on France
410
The American press and the SpanishAmerican War
420
Evasion of laws
425
Public and private protests against
430
The press in normal times
433
Increasing difficulty of securing relaxation of duties or of legislation
435
220
436
In Russia political censorship more severe than military
437
Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge
443
The general statement and the press
444
Impossible to separate news from opinions
450
Political attacks from within more feared than military attacks from
454
Press often overreaches itself in eagerness for news
456
The press a respecter of persons and of authority
460
Armistice changes direction of propaganda
476
Difficulties in its
479
Difficulties since change in Russian government
480
Uncertainty as to best policy to pursue
485
Rigorous press laws
486
Change had been gradual
487
Inherent weakness of propaganda disclosed
494
Swift and the Drapiers Letters
501
Political censorship in England
502
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Página 46 - ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished...
Página 271 - The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Página 46 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thou,sand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends...
Página 264 - The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man; every citizen then can freely speak, write, and print, subject to responsibility for the abuse of this freedom in the cases determined by law.
Página 273 - We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live, and if the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them.* Entertaining these views, I cannot sanction and will not condemn the step you have taken.
Página 270 - I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard i of the public liberty.
Página 408 - Here's the New York Plunderer! Here's the New York Keyhole Reporter! Here's the New York Rowdy Journal! Here's all the New York papers! Here's full particulars of the patriotic loco-foco movement yesterday, in which the whigs was so chawed up; and the last Alabama gouging case; and the interesting Arkansas dooel with Bowie knives; and all the Political, Commercial, and Fashionable News. Here they are! Here they are! Here's the papers, here's the papers!
Página 184 - THIS is the day on which many eminent authors will probably publish their last words. I am afraid that few of our weekly historians, who are men that above all others delight in war, will be able to subsist under the weight of a stamp,* and an approaching peace.
Página 408 - Here's the Sewer's exposure of the Wall Street Gang, and the Sewer's exposure of the Washington Gang, and the Sewer's exclusive account of a flagrant act of dishonesty committed by the Secretary of State when he was eight years old; now communicated, at a great expense, by his own nurse.
Página 46 - Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection. Suffer not these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our...

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