[Albion Wilde]

The newspapers kept the people in alarm for their liberties and made the controversy between mother country and colonies a great popular crusade in which every American could take part. The Tories groaned that by dint of reading newspapers, even 'the peasants and their housewives in every part of the land were able to dispute on politics and positively to determine upon our liberties."

Wonderful quote! And when I taught a college course in communications, I loved the unit on how Benjamin Franklin -- a writer, printer, scholar, scientist, postmaster and diplomat -- changed the course of history with his all-fronts communications. He was the 18th century's "king of all media"!

[Madame Dufarge]

I’ve always been an admirer of Silence Dogood...:-)