Blog #3: Feature News Story and Hard News Story Compare and Contrast and Response of Chapter 2 (Abolition)

   
(Chapter 2)

After reading this chapter I realized how much Freedom of the Press and Abolition go hand to hand. Through journalism many editors has changed history. Elijah P. Lovejoy established his own newspaper in his state of Missouri called the St.Louis Observer and Alton Obersver. According to Lovejoy, " Just as Tom Paine had appealed to the human emotions to translate colonial opposition to the British into terms the average man and women could relate to, abolitionist editors used highly charged rhetoric to place the slavery debate on a plane that made sense to a critical mass of the American public." People were soon reading the newspaper more and transformed the most controversial issue into a bigger issue. With more and more readers there were more editors writing about slavery particularly William Lloyd Garrison. He bean publishing in Boston of 1831 "What emerged as the archetype of advocacy journalism in American History,The Liberator. He constantly debated pro slavery editors and with his voice against slavery more and more mainstream newspaper also joined in the crusade. It only started with 2,500 subscribers but then grew to a circulation of about 200,000. There were many other abolionists that soon follow. Through journalism it has convinced the opinion of many on slavery and through it The Thirteenth Amendment was passed by the constitution, abolishing slavery.

TBC..