Infamous Scribblers

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By Liz Bulkley on Monday, March 12, 2007.
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If you think the press is experiencing a volatile period today, it's nothing compared to what our founding fathers faced. George Washington was frustrated by it, John Adams disdained it, and Thomas Jefferson figured out how to simply manipulate it. We'll talk with Eric Burns, the author of Infamous Scribblers about the rowdy beginnings of American journalism.

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