Journal Entry #1 - First Newspapers
There are some obvious differences between the early newspapers and the newspapers of today. Modern newspapers have changed in how they are presented because, unlike early newspapers, they now have pictures that relate to the articles, and are in colour. The news that is put into newspapers has changed too, back then we could only get four pages worth of news, but now we can get much more stories about both local and global news. Now we can read the newspaper and get information about more than just what happened in a single small city, but back then all we really could read about was our own community. Also today we have news that we can read online, so we can find out about any topic at any time we want, and we can watch videos about topics that interest us and news online also often contains links to more information about the article, so nowadays we get the chance to get more information on news that interests us.
I personally don't think that the government should have the same amount of control over the newspapers as it did years ago. Publick Occurrences was shut down because it didn't agree with what the government stood for, which I don't think is fair. I think that the newspaper should be a source for the people of a community to get an unbiased opinion, because I think that the opinions that are put into the newspaper can really affect how the people who read that newspaper think. I don't think that the newspaper should be able to only talk trash about the government, especially if they're spewing lies, but I also think the government shouldn't be allowed to ban publication of a newspaper just because it contains things that they don't necessarily agree with
Newspapers are able to publish newspapers that are critical of the government without getting in trouble because they protected by the Freedom of the Press. This prevents the government from shutting down newspapers and other media sites over what their content includes. Newspapers are permitted to publish things that the government doesn't agree with without having to be worried about the government trying to shut them down.
I was surprised to learn that the first newspaper published in Canada was in Halifax. I would have thought that the first newspaper would have been released in a more populated part of Canada, but then again I don't really know how populated the parts of Canada were back then. I just think that it would have made more sense for the newspaper to be published in a place where there is more people and more stories happening.
I personally don't think that the government should have the same amount of control over the newspapers as it did years ago. Publick Occurrences was shut down because it didn't agree with what the government stood for, which I don't think is fair. I think that the newspaper should be a source for the people of a community to get an unbiased opinion, because I think that the opinions that are put into the newspaper can really affect how the people who read that newspaper think. I don't think that the newspaper should be able to only talk trash about the government, especially if they're spewing lies, but I also think the government shouldn't be allowed to ban publication of a newspaper just because it contains things that they don't necessarily agree with
Newspapers are able to publish newspapers that are critical of the government without getting in trouble because they protected by the Freedom of the Press. This prevents the government from shutting down newspapers and other media sites over what their content includes. Newspapers are permitted to publish things that the government doesn't agree with without having to be worried about the government trying to shut them down.
I was surprised to learn that the first newspaper published in Canada was in Halifax. I would have thought that the first newspaper would have been released in a more populated part of Canada, but then again I don't really know how populated the parts of Canada were back then. I just think that it would have made more sense for the newspaper to be published in a place where there is more people and more stories happening.
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