American Decades

Important Events in Media, 1970–1979

President Richard M. Nixon signs the Failing Newspaper Act (later renamed the Newspaper Preservation Act) into law. The act, overturning a U.S. Supreme Court decision from the previous year, allows local newspapers to share production facilities provided that one of the papers is in financial trouble and that the agreement does not deter competition.
The Harris Corporation of Cleveland introduces the first computer editing terminal for newspapers; its first customers include the Gannett group.
The Postal Reorganization Act raises second-class rates and eliminates a relaxed scale for periodicals, resulting in the failure or size reduction of several magazines.
Negro Digest is renamed Black World.
An article in Playboy calls underground comics "obscene, anarchistic, sophomoric, subversive and apocalyptic."
National Lampoon first appears.

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