“Bigot.” “Opportunist.” “An eye for the sensational.” “He has mercury in his blood.” These are not the words from contemporaries and opponents from his era, but they are used by historians to describe the man who birthed American journalism. That is not to say Benjamin Harris did not inspire similar invective while alive; one of his critics then stated he was simply “the worst man in the world.” Rather fitting that this is the character who kicked off what has led to the quagmire of our contemporary media complex.Read More
The Anniversary of the First U.S. Newspaper: The Problematic Birth of Our Problematic Journalism Industry
