id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4091 Journalism - Wikipedia .html text/html 7864 934 59 Consequently, this has resulted in arguments to reconsider journalism as a process distributed among many authors, including the socially mediating public, rather than as individual products and articles written by dedicated journalists.[12] In the American Colonies, newspapers motivated people to revolt against British rule by publishing grievances against the British crown and republishing pamphlets by revolutionaries such as Thomas Paine,[39][40] while loyalist publications motivated support against the American Revolution.[41] News publications in the United States would remain proudly and publicly partisan throughout the 19th century.[42] In France, political newspapers sprang up during the French Revolution, with L'Ami du peuple, edited by Jean-Paul Marat, playing a particularly famous role in arguing for the rights of the revolutionary lower classes. The role and status of journalism, as well as mass media, has undergone changes over the last two decades, together with the advancement of digital technology and publication of news on the Internet. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4091.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4091.txt