News During The French and Indian War

Newspapers during The French and Indian War played a major role in colonial life. The number of newspapers skyrocketed 73% from their original numbers. Colonists learned that they could not live without knowing what was going on in the War. The newspapers gave them vital information about everything from fallen soldiers, battle descriptions, surrenders, enemy atrocities and so on. They also denounced the enemy in the papers. People wrote letters to soldiers too. News reporting was accurate from the colonists side of the story, not so much from the French and Indian side though. The primary stories in the newspapers were all about the war.