Historic outlets profiled in class

Common Sense by Tom Paine; focus on documents, not authors (or leaker), e.g. Ed Snowden; Frederick Douglass' North Star; Woman's Journal in 1911 reports on a victory; The Nation leader for decades, Oswald Garrison Villard; the muckracking magazine McClure's and a new website that seems to be the anti-McClure's; the weekly Appeal to Reason was one of our country's biggest ever indy; The Catholic Worker featured writers like Thomas Merton -- he and editor Dorothy Day recently praised by THE POPE; The Ladder, pioneering lesbian publication; one of the most important alternative weeklies, L.A. Free Press; the publication that inspired Steve Jobs, Whole Earth Catalog.