New media, new censorship
By Althea Taylor-Salmon, posted 2nd January 2015
You don’t have to travel far back in time to find a society that could barely read let alone publish their thoughts and breakfast menu to anyone interested (and probably many who are not). Apparently, one week’s copies of the New York Times contains more information than 18th century folk were exposed to in a lifetime. We in the UK have always been avid media consumers and read more newspapers and magazines than any other nation on Earth. And the subjects are not essentially different from those of yore; royal court dramas and public hangings have now been replaced
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