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Starr Chapter 8 Summary

Starr Chapter 8 Summary

Q For full credit on the reading response, submit a 300-400 word response to the assigned reading, which should be approached from a critical perspective. You can pose a question about the reading and attempt an answer, you can analyze the author’s interpretation, use of evidence, or approach to the subject matter, or you can use information from the class to examine an idea expressed in the reading in more detail. The important thing is to approach the readings from a critical perspective and ask questions about how the historian has structured the reading and approached the subject matter. These will be submitted on blackboard via SafeAssign, which is the plagiarism tool.

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Chapter 8 of the book discusses how the First Amendment to the US constitution affected the media. The First Amendment ensured several rights and liberties to the people and it also consists of the right to have freedom of expression. Media being one of the main ways to express, the first amendment played an important role for media. As the 19th century came to an end, the American laws became stricter causing several issues for the rights of people including the right to have freedom of expression (p. 267). In America, journalism used to be free of any kind of governmental control and had full freedom of speech however, as the new laws started to be imposed, the media faced some issues