Random blog posts about research in political communication, how people learn or don't learn from the media, why it all matters -- plus other stuff that interests me. It's my blog, after all. I can do what I want.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Cheap Diffusion of Knowledge
Let's reach back, way back, to The Westminster Magazine of 1785, to find discussion of newspapers and political knowledge:
I love the part "a road unknown to our neighbors" and diffusion of information at "a rate so cheap, as to be attainable by all." Meaning, of course, newspapers.
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