limitations of government. and men who founded this country also understood what was meant by a free press. do you know back before the revolution and during the revolution, there are only a couple of dozen newspapers, little over 30, less than 40. even before that, there are relative handful of printers and the printers were the great patriots. how else would you get the word out? but the pamphleteers were key. many, many pamphleteers and they would write their pamphlets which include some news of the day, typically old news because it took time for news to travel, but the vast majority of the pamphleteers were patriots for liberty, for limited government, for representative government, for private property rights. they were pamphleteers against tyranny and pamphlets would be posted at pubs and other public place. pamphlets would be circulated and by mouth discussed at the
country understood the limitations of government. and men who founded this country also understood what was meant by a free press. do you know back before the revolution and during the revolution, there are only a couple of dozen newspapers, little over 30, less than 40. even before that, there are relative handful of printers and the printers were the great patriots. how else would you get the word out? but the pamphleteers were key. many, many pamphleteers and they would write their pamphlets which include some news of the day, typically old news because it took time for news to travel, but the vast majority of the pamphleteers were patriots for liberty, for limited government, for representative government, for private property rights. they were pamphleteers against tyranny and pamphlets would be posted at pubs and other public place. pamphlets would be circulated and by mouth discussed at the
time. they hated the broadsheets. jefferson and franklin and washington all wrote about how they hated the newspapers of the era, the broadsheets and the pamphleteers, but they saw them as a valuable ally of the people against the government. and it worked for basically 200 years. lincoln imprisoned newspaper editors who criticized his conduct during the civil war. roosevelt complained about them. john kennedy banned the new york herald tribune because he didn t like its republican editorial policy but they were basically fulfilling their constitutional obligation, which was to be against the government. now you have a situation where they are aligning in a far different manner than they are basically arguing against the rule of law and against for whatever you want to call it, but they are not behaving the way they were constitutionally mandated to do so. laura: they are actually taking up the cause of
pamphleteers leading up to the revolutionary war and after, have you good ones, you have what you have. social media has done so much that s good that the conversation isn t controlled by a few media outlets. i love that about it. i love that anyone can become a reporter, anyone who has expertise can put forth ideas and be picked up. for traditional journalists, social media is something of a disaster. when you see what the people actually think, their utter disdain for fellow citizens, bias that is not close to being in question, done a lot to hurt the credibility of the media. i can quote bob woodward. mark: you don t have to, you can do to right here. a lot of reporting, particularly on television commentary, there is a kind of self-righteousness and smugness in people ridiculing the president. when we reported on nixon, obviously very different era
pamphleteers leading up to the revolutionary war and after, have you good ones, you have what you have. social media has done so much that s good that the conversation isn t controlled by a few media outlets. i love that about it. i love that anyone can become a reporter, anyone who has expertise can put forth ideas and be picked up. for traditional journalists, social media is something of a disaster. when you see what the people actually think, their utter disdain for fellow citizens, bias that is not close to being in question, done a lot to hurt the credibility of the media. i can quote bob woodward. mark: you don t have to, you can do to right here. a lot of reporting, particularly on television commentary, there is a kind of self-righteousness and smugness in people ridiculing the president. when we reported on nixon, obviously very different era