Blog #2

I have never given much thought to how important newspapers, magazines, and literature were to the colonist.  Thinking that newspapers and magazines were their main source of news seems strange to me because today we have access to national and world news through many different outlets, such as the daily and nightly news on TV and Google.   It is also shocking to me to know that ten of the twelve newspapers were printed in three major cities, it makes me wonder how long it took for the rest of the colonist to receive the news that the more urbanized colonist were reading weekly.  Realizing how far literature and national news has come since the 17 and 1800s is amazing.   Today we have the ability to listen to the news on TV while we get ready for work or bed, we have electronic versions of books and there are numerous magazines available at any grocery store you go to.  Although these advancements are amazing, it saddens me to think that we are losing our roots.  Not many people can say that they take the time to sit and read the newspaper in the morning or that they have gone to the bookstore and purchased a new novel.  Major bookstores are shutting their doors because Americans would rather see the movie than read the book and magazines are bought more today for juicy celebrity gossip than for educational purposes. The quick changes in technology make me wonder what the world of literature will be like in ten or twenty years from now.