

- Journalism, Broadcast journalism, Comic books, strips, Journalismus
The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today.
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About the book
- Author
- Brooke Gladstone
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Company, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393077797
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