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Governments Love a Media Cartel—As Long as They’re in Control

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In 1969, one of the country’s most controversial speakers delivered a fiery attack on the mass media. “For millions of Americans,” he declared, the three TV networks “are the sole source of national and world news.” Thanks to “a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government,” a “small group of men, numbering perhaps no more than […]

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Postal Censorship and Surveillance: A Timeline

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1775 A year before independence, the Continental Congress creates the Postal Service—not as a government agency, but as one of several new independent alternatives to the British postal system. One advantage: This allows American dissidents to communicate without the authorities intercepting their letters. 1835 Southern mobs seize and burn abolitionist material sent through the mail. […]