How did technological improvements affect the production of newspapers?
a. Improvements increased the number of printed books, thereby decreasing newspaper readership and production.
b. Improvements made it more cost-effective to produce newspapers in mass quantities, thereby creating a larger readership.
c. Production suffered as newspapers competed more with privately printed pamphlets.
d. The ease of the new printing method created an influx of competing newspapers, none of which could command a large enough readership to be effective in news distribution.
e. The high cost of new technologies reduced the amount of papers a news organization could afford to produce.
Question 2
In 1798, Congress prohibited criticism of the government through the
a. Anti-Federalist essays.
b. creation of the Federal Communications Commission.
c. fairness doctrine.
d. First Amendment.
e. Sedition Act.