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By Cordelia

For my final project, I will be exploring the ways in which media bias has affected the United States. I will focus primarily on the media of the revolution and, obviously, Antebellum periods, and will discuss not only the biases and framing methods used, but what even constituted as media at the time. Some examples I might use are the Silence Dogood letters, the Boston Massacre engraving, and the creation of regional newspapers. I know there are many primary sources of such documents that I can research and reference.

Mainly, my project will be responding to questions such as what time of influence did the media have over public opinions? Did the media of the time have as much sway with political and social occurrences as it appears to today? How do the different biases found in the information spreading of the past compare to those found in mainstream media today?

I will also explore how literacy contributed to the growth and effects of American media and how mass media even came to be, as opposed to other ways of spreading information such as letters, or commonplace books.