Ch. 8

Apparently, the first colonists under British rule to come to the east coast of America, didn't have their own newspapers for something like 20 years.  I'm just wondering whether the British just forbidded them from making their own, or if the colonists just didn't think they were necessary.  Understandably, in the early stages, colonists really didn't pay attention to anything except their own local communities.  Anyway, I remember from middle school doing a project on something called, "Common Sense."  It was one of the first colonial newspapers that tried convincing the colonists to revolt against English rule.  It actually ended up rallying a lot of colonists and made them more aware of what was happening in the other colonies.

Really, newspapers have the same function that they did back then.  Newspapers are here to provide information to the common citizen.  Newspapers are probably the least biased form of information out there, in a world where most of the news stations are obviously Republican-oriented.  FOX, for example, cannot go a single minute without bashing the president for something, or just shows Glenn Beck putting a Hitler moustache on something.  All in all, newspapers might not be as fast as television news or the internet, but it provides the most unbiased information.

Personally, I don't read the newspaper.  I might look at it during elections or to play Sudoku, but it just isn't worth my time.  It may be informative and unbiased, but it's not nearly as fast as the internet.  It's really boring, too.  I don't see a way in making the newpaper more fun to read, but maybe when I get older, I'll start to read it more.  Right now, I need entertainment, and the newspaper just is not a good source.