TRÈS bon article qui replace les mutations de la presse dans un contexte historique assez tripatif. «Journalism for a nonelite audience was an innovation of the American republic. The country’s great experiment in self-governance required that voters know what was at stake in Washington, so Congress did its best to ensure the flow of relevant information. The Post Office Act of 1792, for example, gave newspapers a sharp discount on mailing rates. By 1794, John reports in his book Spreading the News, newspapers were generating just 3 percent of postal revenue but accounting for 70 percent of postal matter by weight—a bit like Netflix’s and YouTube’s hogging of Internet bandwidth today.»
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:52:26 +0000
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