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Response to John's "Ancient Printing Discussion"

In John's blog he discussed the conversation we had in class on Ancient printing, how it evolved and effected societies. John's insight and perspective gave me a new look into the topic. Admittedly, during class I felt this topic was the least interesting we had hit so far. Although I find history very interesting, a decent amount of our conversation in class simply covered how things were printed, whereas I find the effects things have on society more interesting. Inferentially, you may guess I was most captivated by the section of the discussion where we talked about how higher levels of society rejected the metal printing type press made by Gutenberg.
John went a further step as to relate this to how those in power today take advantage of printing press to tell us what they want us to hear but how we can still reply on good journalists to tell us what we need to hear. This thought pushes me to think more in depth of the pros and cons of freedom of press.  

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