Surname 1 Student Name Professor Name Course Date Reading Response Assignment Boston Evening Post 3-8, 1762 Quotes Quote 1 “But besides these general uses they have another, which is still of greater consequence in a free country” Translation Newspapers can influence decisions within a nation and propel change. Quote 2 “They afford an opportunity of bringing all causes before the impartial tribunal of the public; which in all cases will hear and, in some manner, address those grievances, which no law can reach.” Translation The Newspapers can accommodate sufficient information that the society may use in making decisions regarding the national challenges. Quote 3 “For this reason, there was a man an enemy of the press, who was not secretly and in his heart an enemy to all liberty.” Translation Freedom is greatly associated with the free newspaper. Any person opposing the newspaper is equated to one standing against the way of freedom. Quote 4 Surname 2 “But there is another very good effect, which may be looked upon as certain, though we can afford no ‘proofs of it; it is this, that many more grievances we should have had if this remedy was not in our power” Translation The newspaper has brought to limelight challenges facing the society and open room for free communication and solutions to the problems. London Evening Post March 24, 1764 Quote 1 “And this I will affirm, that if any restraint whatsoever should be laid upon the press, we shall be in the ready road of returning to again into the dark chains of ignorance” Translation The free press educates and builds a knowledgeable society. Quote 2 “It is impossible to enumerate all the advantages that flow to mankind in general, and to this nation in particular, from the freedom of the press.” Translation The growth of a society is dependent on information provided in the Newspaper. Quote 3 “In a world, all sorts of men, whose interest it is not to have their actions exposed to the public, (which I am afraid are no small number) will be for restraining the press” Translation The Newspapers are valued for their honesty in reporting events taking place around the nation. Quote 4 Surname 3 “But if there was a licenser of the press, he might be prevailed on not only to hinder the injured from appealing to the people, by publishing the grievances” Translation The Newspaper embrace equity in publishing information.
