1950's Media | "New York: Nightmare"

Magazine article

By: Newsweek

Date: December 14, 1953

Source: "New York: Nightmare." Newsweek, December 14, 1953, 29–31.

About the Publication: Newsweek was founded in 1933 by Thomas J.C. Martyn. It was purchased by the Washington Post company in 1961. Headquartered in New York City, Newsweek had a circulation of four million in 2003. The news magazine mixes text and images in its coverage of the previous week's events.

Introduction

The first American newspapers existed even before there was a United States of America. One famous early American newspaper publisher was Benjamin Franklin, who published the Pennsylvania Gazette starting in 1729. One of the leading radicals in the colonies was Samuel Adams, who published his Journal of the Times in Boston. It, and other newspapers like it, spread the ideology of the...