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Jun. 11th, 2009 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupCoworker J and I got onto the topic of US presidents this morning and were googling around for information on Where Presidents Come From ("when two people are in love and wish to elect a world leader...") when we stumbled on a web article about America's First Newspaper.
The first issue [of America's first newspaper] on September 25, 1690, consisted of four pages. Only three had actual news printed on them. [Benjamin Harris, the publisher] left the fourth page blank for people to write their own comments or news on before they passed them on to neighbors and friends.
Sam and J: *lol*
It was a time honored practice among the thrifty Puritan folk to "share" subscriptions to almost any publication. Eric Burns in his book Infamous Scribblers, says, "This made Publick Occurences a source of interactive journalism a full three centuries before the Internet." Indeed it may be argued that this was the very first instance of a news blog in America.
Sam and J: *ENDLESS LOL*
The first issue [of America's first newspaper] on September 25, 1690, consisted of four pages. Only three had actual news printed on them. [Benjamin Harris, the publisher] left the fourth page blank for people to write their own comments or news on before they passed them on to neighbors and friends.
Sam and J: *lol*
It was a time honored practice among the thrifty Puritan folk to "share" subscriptions to almost any publication. Eric Burns in his book Infamous Scribblers, says, "This made Publick Occurences a source of interactive journalism a full three centuries before the Internet." Indeed it may be argued that this was the very first instance of a news blog in America.
Sam and J: *ENDLESS LOL*
