Dr. Jill Lepore
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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It creates all kinds of opportunities for new, like the interview is invented.
You know, eyewitness reporting is invented.
The byline is invented.
Like the history of the newspaper is kind of all about like an explosion of new kinds of doors that...
different people can walk through to report on the world to other people.
And then more people can learn about the world because these newspapers are different.
Like there's an explosion in the democratization of any new technology of communication when it starts.
Like by definition, right?
If you can make a technology of communication cheaper and faster, you're going to reach more people and more people are going to be involved in producing it.
That happens with, you know, with...
the first weekly newspapers, with the penny press in the 1830s, with the telegraph in the 1840s.
It happens, you know, with how the telephone changes news reporting, the wire service in the Mexican-American War.
It happens with the radio in the 1920s.
It happens with TV in the 1950s.
But in each of those, in fact, what's kind of interesting about that, each of those transformations reshapes the party system.
There have been seven party systems in American history, and they are
they all turn on a new emerging communications technology, which unsettles the relationship between the elites and the people, right?
Like the people get more power, the parties just have to get realigned.
But what always happens is...
the elites regain the power, right?
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