From the first days of colonial America, news and opinions circulated in occasional broadsides and handbills. The first regularly produced newspaper -- Public Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick -- published its first issue on September 25, 1690. The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony disliked the opinions in it, so he shut it down.
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