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United Kingdom and United States Journalism Comparison

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US may be attributed to these historical differences. To appreciate how the divergences occurred the historical and well as political circumstances need to be examined. The development of the press  was facilitated only by the development of the printing press. Without this is was not possible to print numerous copies of the same printed material and then allow the information  to spread. It was in 1639 when the first printing press was seen within the colonies, this allowed for thriving newspapers to  be produced within a hundred years of its entrance. With an increases in the number of papers being printed there also began a new growth in the number of books  being printed and published, within such a small period of time and with such a growth of books the region of Charleston, South Carolina had established the first public library  (Tetreault, 2002). The early part of the eighteenth century newspapers began to come out of nowhere especially within the colonies, many began  within the north-east part and slowly moved south, they first began to report everyday events. However as the need for more information grew so to did the styles. Commentaries  were added which were later to prove fruitful for the new regimes and revolutionaries that were slowly growing up in the Americas (Tetreault, 2002).  America also pioneered in many ways the use of the political cartoon within newspapers, here they used the idea of the lampoon to effect opinion. The first political  cartoon was Franklins "Join or Die" in which he called for many of the colonists to take up arms against the French as the war with them became imminent (Tetreault,