【Watch In the Cut (2003)】

2025-06-26 20:33:08 862 views 5225 comments

Benjamin Franklin’s Clippings,Watch In the Cut (2003) Circa 1730

By Jason Novak

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An illustrated series of short news items written by Benjamin Franklin for The Pennsylvania Gazette. News at that time was fueled by hearsay and favored brief, outlandish anecdote. Where Franklin was running his paper in a wilderness devoid of information, we now operate in a wilderness so granite-packed with information that perhaps we now feel just as isolated, just as in the dark. These represent the dawn of American journalism, but I think in the present climate we’re moving back in that direction.

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Jason Novak works at a grocery store in Berkeley, California, and changes diapers in his spare time.

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