Webbenjamin franklin, taking time out from his duties as american ambassador to france, concocted an entirely fake issue of a real boston newspaper, the. Webhere’s what’s fact and fiction in franklin. In 1776, nobody in europe. Webnewspaper publishing in the days of ben franklin and his grandson was a filthy, grinding business. Fighting for freedom of the press was an even more wretched a. Webthis vivid allegorical cartoon, which illustrates the fatal effects on the empire that would result from taxing the colonies, was designed by franklin in 1766.
