A southern newspaper shaped regional ideology toward expansionist settler colonialism.
Evidence
I continued to have discussions with my Moslem friends. Little by little, I was beginning to understand the meaning of the armed struggle and its necessity. But I expressed doubts as to the value of the armed action that was being carried on. Having no other source of information than the local press, we were subjected daily to the colonialist propaganda that made the fellagha out to be extremists and highway bandits. We partly accepted these views, but it could not be gainsaid that the horrors of the repression fully counterbalanced the “horrors” of the maquisards. Between the two we were looking for a third way out. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 554 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
What were the characteristics of the first American newspapers, North or South? They began essentially as appendages of the market. Early gazettes contained – aside from news about the metropole – commercial news (when ships would arrive and depart, what prices were current for what commodities in what ports), as well as colonial political appointments, marriages of the wealthy, and so forth. In other words, what brought together, on the same page, this marriage with that ship, this price with that bishop, was the very structure of the colonial administration and market-system itself. In this way, the newspaper of Caracas quite naturally, and even apolitically, created an imagined community among a specific assemblage of fellow-readers, to whom these ships, brides, bishops and prices belonged. In time, of course, it was only to be expected that political elements would enter in. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 236 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colonial press propaganda shaped even sympathetic settlers’ early views — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 554; Even apolitical market newspapers manufacture shared imagined community — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 236
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Broader Connections
- Colonial press propaganda shaped even sympathetic settlers’ early views
#exemplifies(0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 554 - Even apolitical market newspapers manufacture shared imagined community
#expands(0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 236