First newspaper in America lasted 4 days

You think newspapers today have it tough?

Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first multi-page newspaper in America, was published Sept. 25, 1690 and was closed down four days later.

It was printed by American Richard Pierce of Boston and edited by Benjamin Harris, who had previously published a newspaper in London.

The paper contained four six by ten inch pages and filled only three of them.
The paper was shut down by the British colonial authorities because the government didn’t like what was in it.  

And authorities warned that no one could print without a license issued by the government.

America’s Founding Fathers made a free press the First Amendment to the Constitution to make sure that didn’t happen again.