1. Why would the governor want the colonial’s newspaper copy submitted for “official approval” and what did the colonists gain by not yielding to that demand?
- The government wanted to be able to filter what the people were getting. They can in a way control how they are thinking. For example, if a child is told since the day he is born the trees are bad and they are haunted and he gets bad information about them every day, chances are that we won’t like trees and wont come near them because his environment instilled into him the that thought. That is what the government was doing, making sure the colonist were only thinking what they wanted them to think
2.Why was the New England Courant paper successful even though it turned its nose up at the religious and government institutions that the majority of the people followed?
- It was entertaining, it had comic, real life stories and fairy tales, news and tragic events while the government paper never let out that kind of information. People felt like they were in control of what they read and because it was so different and it had so much more in it, they felt like they were getting the truth out everything
3.List some of influences these news papers or printings had on the population?
- it informed people of what was coming up and what was going on
- brought people together
- helped them sell and trade
4. How did what James Franklin do by starting another paper help what is published in the news now?
- He made the newspaper a form of entertainment instead of a dreary update on political events! It had emotions in it. It touched on what people really wanted to know about.
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