Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… and Holland and severe penalties were imposed on illegal importers of books. By the end of the third English civil war (1651), the circulation of books had increased and news became a political weapon for undermining the credibility of … were partly achieved through the increasing influence of public opinion and the omnipresent press, as Swift’s anti-war arguments in The Conduct of the Allies confirm. The more widespread public opinion was, the more intense government … the most insidious censorship. After the stamp tax of 1712, the beginning of Walpole’s rise to power and the end of the wars, ‘writers were compelled to turn to satire, miscellanies and compendia, the weekly newspapers, the monthly magazine, …
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