To me, I've always thought of newspapers as an American concept, something about them just seemed so...well, American. Maybe the ads, or the faux stories, but it seemed like it would be something more, not just from America. Well I was half right on that, although there were news type papers in town squares long before it, Publick Occerences. It was the first of its kind to be (as close to) a newspaper like we have today. Which this kind of surprised me, due to how most "American" things, were just hybrids of other cultures. But that's why these Newspapers were important, they created this national American culture that we were somewhat lacking before, they unified us as, instead of separate colonies, the United States. Making them one of, if not, the most important national media to occur throughout our history in America.
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