It seems that everywhere I turn these days I'm finding a conversation, article, documentary or blog post about the state of the American newspaper. As someone who grew up wanting to be a newspaperman, this is all very near and dear to my heart.
The latest article I've come across is in the last New Yorker magazine. It's an almost 7,000-word beauty that is definitely worth the read.
Here's a little something to get you started:
The American newspaper has been around for approximately three hundred years. Benjamin Harris’s spirited Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick managed just one issue, in 1690, before the Massachusetts authorities closed it down. Harris had suggested a politically incorrect hard line on Indian removal and shocked local sensibilities by reporting that the King of France had been taking liberties with the Prince’s wife...
Read it and then come back and tell us what you think.
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