Blog Assignment 3

I watched “17 Days: The Story of Newspaper History in the Making (1945)” produced by unknown person for this weekend’s online assignment, because I am curious about how people in old times handle newspapers. Now in twenty first century, people, especially young adults do not arduously look for newspaper to be informed what is happening in society because they are very familiar with online clips conveying news to them in real time. This video is very repetitive, making it a bit boring, but it clearly shows how newspapers were important for people in 1940s in New York City. I was impressed by a capture of the video showing that numerous people make a huge line on the street in order to purchase updated newspapers because the newspaper delivery’s strike for seventeen days. In 1940s, newspaper was the one of only a few media that common people can get, so the strike of the delivery service could helplessly have brought a chaos with crowd on the street. The video makes me learn how greatly the media have developed so that much more people can easily access to the news these days.

https://archive.org/details/17DaysTh1945