Technology and System Era

According to Roy W. Howard, “Newspaper Mass Production”, the view of the dangers of mass-production and centralization of the newspaper is that it is a “’Chain Journalism,’ as its critics prefer to designate it, is nothing more than the editing and operation of a group of newspapers in different cities by a single corporation, or by a group of corporations, with a centralized control” (Roy pp421). The mass productions of newspapers are to serve the public interest within their community, it is a form of entertainment and a way to get what’s new around the world. “The danger for American newspapers of today and tomorrow lies in the tendency toward monopolization of individual fields, or toward the elimination of competition and the subjections of a city or community to the dictatorship of a single publisher” (Roy pp424). The newspapers are competing to make readers think intelligently for themselves while reading instead of reading on what the public’s point of views are.

On the other hand, John J. Fry, “‘Good Farming-Clear Thinking-Right Living’", has a different view of the dangers of mass-production and centralization of the newspaper. Instead of providing massive newspaper for entertainment or news around the world, they have the farm newspaper. “Farm newspapers across the country heralded the adoption of new farming methods and trumpeted the availability of cultural amenities, while responding to the uneasiness felt by country people in the face of outmigration” (John pp35). The farm newspaper include various reasons on why farmers should adopt the new agricultural methods, it is one of the “most popular means for reformers to communicate their ideas to country people”, and “farm newspapers also provided a space for farmers to respond to those ideas” (John pp40). The farm newspaper was very popular with country people but most of the publishers and editors are not farmers they are people that lived in cities. The farm newspaper often “reflected the editors’...