The Pennsylvania Gazette

And Franklin loved Whitefield.

Whitefield's sermons appeared repeatedly in Franklin's paper, the Pennsylvania Gazette.

He published Whitefield's sermons, and on eight different occasions, one of Whitefield's sermons took up an entire front page.

He published multiple editions of his journals, sold thousands of copies of his sermons, and the two corresponded regularly.

But he was talking about fire.

He had written it in an essay that he wrote anonymously and sent to his own newspaper, which he owned, which was called the Pennsylvania Gazette.

And he outlined ways to not only prevent fires, but to suppress fires.

At that time in Philadelphia and across the major cities in the United States, fire was sort of accepted as inevitable.

But he found out that you could do something about it.

And he wrote a piece in his own newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette.

He wrote it anonymously like he tended to do many times.

And he used that phrase and he talked about ways to prevent fires and then ways to suppress fires.

Well, you know, one of the things to be clear is that we're not arguing against private ownership writ large, right? There should be, you know, hopefully a large, diverse pool of media outlets, uh, many with a lot of resources and power to, to hold public power to account.

And, you know, it's always been the, the, the fact, going back to, you know, Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette, that there's private ownership of media in this country.

So that's not what we're objecting to here.

It's the, uh, way that political power has put its finger on the scale.

It actually started back with Benjamin Franklin doing a cartoon in his – I forget what it was called.

It's his Pennsylvania Gazette or whatever.

Yeah.

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