From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we'll talk with John Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College,

about the media and the birth of modern journalism.

Edward Earler with us to discuss his recent book, Property and the Pursuit of Happiness,

Locke, the Declaration of Independence, Madison, and the Challenge of the Administrative State.

We'll talk with Matthew Guy Tano from Hillsdale's History Department about the counter-reformation.

And Michael Clark from Hillsdale's economics department will tell us about his award-winning economics game.

Join now by John J. Miller, director of the Herbert H. Dow, the second program in American

Journalism here at Hillsdale College, national correspondent for National Review, and his latest book,

Reading Around Journalism on Authors, Artists, and Ideas.

John, thanks for joining us.

Hi, Scott.

Talk today about the birth of modern journalism.

So you point to the early 1700s as the birth of modern journalism, and we'll get to that

in the moment.

But prior to that point in time, what did journalism look like?

So I teach a course here at Hillsdale College on the history of journalism.

And so the question is, where does it start?

You know, how do you define this is, you know, you have to bring that up on day one, you know, pick a starting point.

And as you say, I pick a starting point that is in the early 18th century and I'll describe that in a moment.

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