Newspapers

      In Mr. Miller's class we had a lecture on newspapers, which I didn't think I was going to enjoy, but it ended up being very interesting. I don't really read the newspaper and neither do many people in my family, so I didn't think much about them. That is until we talked about it in class. During our lecture we talked about how long newspapers have been around, why they are important, and the effects they had on the world and developing other technology.
     Our lecture on books was a lot like this one, but if you really look at the two inventions you would see that there are advantages of both. A big one that really caught my eye was the fact that newspapers were shareable. I never really thought about it much but newspapers are super cheap, so it is okay to leave it places and if you give it to someone else then you don't have to get it back. But with books, they were always super expensive, mostly because of how long it took to print them, and so they weren't as shareable, and you would want it back. Also books didn't really tell about news and there wasn't really just one book for everyone unlike the newspaper, which has many different columns and stories for many different people.
     So I think this lecture was very relevant and important to have, and now I think a lot differently about newspapers and it makes me appreciate them a lot more.