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Founders Would Have Deemed Pace Of News Unprecedented: Un-President-ed, Too
- by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, February 17, 2020
On this Presidents' Day, I'd like you to think about how the speed of media has changed since our first President, and what implications that holds for a republic that relies on informed citizens.
When our founders declared independence from the British on July 4, 1776, it took six days …
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Joe Mandese is the Editor in Chief of MediaPost. You can reach Joe at joe@mediapost.com.
Excellent piece, Joe! One minor correction: today is not George Washington's birthday. That would be February 22nd. Today is "Presidents' Day," a holiday made up in 1971 by our brilliant politicians in Congress thereby single-handedly elevating non-entities like Franklin Pierce and James Buchanon (much less William Henry Harrison, in office one month) to the same level as Washington, Lincoln and the Roosevelts. As usual, a great job by the boobs in Washington.
IDK... NY Times from 4/15/1865 has it on the front page...
https://www.nytimes.com/1865/04/15/archives/president-lincoln-shot-by-an-assassin-the-deed-done-at-fords.html
@Jerry Milani: Lincoln was shot by Booth on April 14, he died on April 15.
The April 15 edition of the New York Times you're sourcing reports an assissination attempt in which Lincoln was still alive. The New York Times didn't report his actual assissination until the next day, April 16.
It was to combine Lincoln and Washington birthdays for the sake of commerce for one day off instead of 2 for schools, government and other employees.
Love this article, Joe! I'm seeing an uptick in consumer interest for non-partisan news but hadn't thought about the speed of information angle to the problem. It is an important consideration if consumers are trying to turn back the clock on our post-truth world.