All Chapter end with Conclusion.
I. MEDIA IN EARLY AMERICA.
1. Crossing the Atlantic. Printing Revolution as Catalyst for Social Change.
Prior Restraint in England: Publishing Precedent.
British America.
Control by Elites.
Publishing - A Commercial Enterprise.
2. Resistance and Liberty. Impartiality: Principles or Economics?
Resistance Personified: The Zenger Trial.
Colonial Resistance to Economic Policy.
Economic Resistance Turns Political.
Congressional Proceedings Secret.
Public Opinion and Freedom of Expression.
Newspapers and Political Pamphlets: Relative Merits.
Newspapers for a Continent.
Recording Early History: Isaiah Thomas.
3. Forming a New Nation. Constitutional Politics and the Press.
The Bill of Rights: Congress Shall Make No Law.
Evolution of the Commercial Press.
Political Press and National Politics.
Alien and Sedition Acts.
4. Diversity in the Early Republic. Newspapers for a Continent.
Political Tradition Continues.
Foreign-Language Press and Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds.
Labor Press.
Native American Press Responds to European Settlement.
Black Newspapers As Response to White Society.
Magazines.
Book Publishing as Challenge to Cultural Norms.
Technology, Production and Labor.
5. Penny Papers in the Metropolis. Characteristics of the Penny Press.
The New York Leaders.
Reasons for Development.
II. MEDIA IN AN EXPANDING NATION.
6. Expansion Unifies and Divides. Transportation and Communication.
Communication and the Movement Westward.
Oral Culture and the Lecture Circuit.
Evolution of the Penny Press.
Press Development in the Antebellum South.
7. Communication Issues in the Anti-Slavery Movement and the Civil War. The Abolitionist Movement: Printed Products in an Age of Change.
The Civil War.
Photography and Pictorial Illustration.
8. Modernization and Printed Products. A Magazine Revolution.
Challenge of Modernization.
Pleas for Equality and Progress.
Editors and Modernization.
9. Mass Markets and Mass Culture. Advertising and Mass Culture.
Mass Press for a Mass Audience.
Business Promotes Itself.
Professionalization and Exclusion.
Critique of the Press.
10. Reform Is My Religion. Impact of Immigration on Society and Publication.
The Suffragist Press.
Black Press at Century's Turn.
Agrarian Lecture Circuit and Press.
MEDIA IN A MODERN WORLD.
11. Progressivism and World War I. Mass-Market Muckraking.
Newspapers in the Early Twentieth Century.
Control of Information During the War.
Media Reaction to War.
Correspondents at the Front.
Electronic Media Make Their Debut.
Going to the Movies.
12. Media and Consumer Culture. Radio: What Have They Done With My Child?
Newsreels: Facts and Fakery.
Going to the Movies.
Advertising and Consumer Culture.
Public Relations: A Corporate Necessity.
The 1920s Newspaper and Nationalization.
The Black Press.
Novels and Pulps.
13. Depression and Disillusion. Media Content as Interpretation.
News Magazines as Journalism of Synthesis.
Radio News.
Criticism and Alternatives.
Media Content as Entertainment.
Media and Government.
Presidents and the Press.
Photojournalism.
14. Images of War. A Radio War.
The Wire Services and the War.
Media Plays Multiple Roles.
Photography Depicts Two Views of Japanese Internment.
Media and Government.
Television Technology Emerges from the Wings.
Black Press Reflects Increased Consumer Power.
IV. CORPORATE POWER AND GLOBALIZATION.
15. Electronic Images in a Cold War. Media Compete for Audiences and Advertising.
Media and the Advertising Industry.
Media and Public Relations: The Images of Business.
Media, Government, and Politics.
A Few Lone Voices of Dissent.
16. Affluence and Activism. At Home and Abroad: The Big Stories.
Electronic Media and the Global Village.
Questions of Media Monopoly, Regulation and Technology.
Minow and the Vast Wasteland.
Newspaper Consolidation and Profits.
Cultural Change in the Newsrooms.
Government and the Press.
Watergate and the News Media.
Credibility and Ethics.
Language of 1960s Journalism.
Magazines: Death or Specialization.
Endnotes. 