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Lunar Manbats

Matthew Goodman tells the story of an elaborate hoax involving “lunar man-bats” in the early days of the penny press.

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  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting report on the history of objectivity in American journalism (PDF)
  • A primer on the history of journalism ethics
  • Essays on the print culture of American women
  • Three centuries of broadsides and printed ephemera
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