served the dual purpose of teaching Puritan children to read as well as providing their religious instruction. It is said that this book has influenced many children the longest period of time a textbook has ever done. The New England Primer, had a reign of over 150 years as the fundamental reading material for children. Harris was the most widely read author of children’s books in seventeenth-and eighteenth- century America. In September of that year, he published his newspaper, Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to be published in the colonies. There were four pages, with the last page being blank for readers to write down their own opinion before passing the paper to their neighbors(Britannica). His first
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The article also talked about a Watertown farmer who committed suicide because he was depressed over the death of his wife. Other news items included were “Epidemical Fevers,” Small-pox,” Disaster by the fire,” and a failed “Western Expedition against Canada.” The format of Publick Occurrences was very different from today’s newspapers(BookRags). Stories were not separated by headlines, but by blank spaces and indentations. Harris was the first to print a newspaper in the colonies, but his format did not continue throughout the years. That is one thing that was altered since …show more content…
Issues of is Publick Occurrences were destroyed, except for one copy that was sent to England and today can be found in the London Public Records Office. In 1692 Massachusetts Governor William Phipps appointed Harris as the state’s printer. Harris returns to London with his family in 1695 where he published his longest-running paper the London Post from 1699-1706(Paraschos). Benjamin Harris will always be remembered for bringing journalism to America but I do not see him as a man to be remembered for his character. He persecuted Catholics in England and fled to the colonies. I think of the journalist we learned in class called Stephen Glass because they both published fictional news but in Harris case he wanted to start a conflict when Glass just wanted to have interesting quotes for his article to get into the next
The article also talked about a Watertown farmer who committed suicide because he was depressed over the death of his wife. Other news items included were “Epidemical Fevers,” Small-pox,” Disaster by the fire,” and a failed “Western Expedition against Canada.” The format of Publick Occurrences was very different from today’s newspapers(BookRags). Stories were not separated by headlines, but by blank spaces and indentations. Harris was the first to print a newspaper in the colonies, but his format did not continue throughout the years. That is one thing that was altered since …show more content…
Issues of is Publick Occurrences were destroyed, except for one copy that was sent to England and today can be found in the London Public Records Office. In 1692 Massachusetts Governor William Phipps appointed Harris as the state’s printer. Harris returns to London with his family in 1695 where he published his longest-running paper the London Post from 1699-1706(Paraschos). Benjamin Harris will always be remembered for bringing journalism to America but I do not see him as a man to be remembered for his character. He persecuted Catholics in England and fled to the colonies. I think of the journalist we learned in class called Stephen Glass because they both published fictional news but in Harris case he wanted to start a conflict when Glass just wanted to have interesting quotes for his article to get into the next