blog assignment #3

class on thursday was interesting, we talked about hanover; or the persecution of the lowly by david bryant thorne,jack, aka fulton. my group discussed how the newspapers were used for both good and evil. how the newspaper manipulated people because people never challenged popular thought. so whatever was written , people believed. how the black man that ran his newspaper was being told to retracted what he wrote because the white men did not like what he wrote. the white men and black men as well only liked to write things that would be popular and would have them in the limelight. " the great newspapers of today are too engrossed in weightier matters to concern themselves to any extent with things that promote directly the interest of the ten million black americans. that is largely the cause of the existence of the negro editors. the negro, like the white man, likes to read something good of himself; likes to see his picture in the paper;like to read of the social and business affairs of his people; likes to see the bright and sunnyside of the character portrayed; so he often turns from the great journals (who are if saying anything at all convencing him, worring over the " negro problem " (?)) to look at the bright side presented by the negro newspaper. " ( fulton 16 ). it shows how the newspaper gets people to act, and how the newspaper is the public opinion instrument.