![]() ![]() But that wasn't the point for them - they had opinions and they wanted to be heard. Many didn't make much profit, and some lost money. Newspapers were founded to make points, to further agendas, to support causes. Long lasting just because of it's inoffensiveness, Campbell's effort was also excruciatingly dull, and typically included reports of each shipment that came into Boston Harbor. Unfortunately, there was no freedom of the press back then.īut if Harris was the Drudge of the early colonial period, then John Campbell and his Boston News Letter was the cat blog. Harris is the forefather of many bloggers who seek to increase readership (and subscribers) by being as outlandish as possible (coughDrudgecough). And the first edition was also the last - Harris' writing was so inflammatory that the colonial government in Boston shut him down. Four pages long, poor formatting, little space between stories - no headlines. ![]() In the beginning, you have Benjamin Harris and his Publick Occurrences both Foreign and Domestic (1690). The first thing that struck me in reading this book is how similar the beginnings of American journalism and the beginnings of the blogosphere actually are. Book Review: Infamous Scribblers by Eric Burns
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