SCOOP!
This is no scoop: Newspapers in the United States are an endangered species. Things were quite different in 1956, when Parker Brothers came out with Scoop!, a board game devoted to
publishing your own daily. At that time, newspapers were flying high, tossed in the air by delivery boys to waiting porches and depicted in Hollywood movies like Deadline—U.S.A. and Sweet Smell of Success.
In the “New World,” newspapers trace their origins to 1690, when , the first newspaper in colonial America, was published. It was shut down by British authorities after just one issue. Despite that inauspicious beginning, newspaper publishing went on to thrive in the United States; by the 1950s, there were over 50 million copies of weekday papers in circulation.
