As the most famous theory, “imagined community” has been a main paradigm on the subject of newspaper and nation-state. But "Imagine" is obscure and “imagined community” had avoided another important question: how the nation-state being in daily life? Inspired by the concept “visible place” from Human Geography, this paper tries to promote the theoretical narration on newspaper and nation-state. It is argued that newspaper, as a new form of modern culture, have functioned the abstract nation-state into a concrete place by actual events and thus created a “visible” community in everyday life. The visibility of the nation-state is the basic condition for modern politics.