TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pettegree,Andrew
TI  - The invention of news: how the world came to know about itself 
SN  - 9780300206227
AV  - PN5110 .P48 2014
U1  - 070.09 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New Haven, London, England
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Journalisme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-428) and index; Introduction; All the news that's fit to tell --; The beginnings of news publication; Power and imagination; The wheels of commerce; The first news prints; State and nation; Confidential correspondents; Marketplace and tavern; Triumph and tragedy --; Mercury rising; Speeding the posts; The first newspapers; War and rebellion; Storm in a coffee cup --; Enlightenment?; The search for truth; The age of the journal; In business; From our own correspondent; Cry freedom; How Samuel Sewall read his paper --; Conclusion
N2  - "Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. This groundbreaking book tracks the history of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries. It evaluates the unexpected variety of ways in which information was transmitted in the premodern world as well as the impact of expanding news media on contemporary events and the lives of an ever-more-informed public. Andrew Pettegree investigates who controlled the news and who reported it; the use of news as a tool of political protest and religious reform; issues of privacy and titillation; the persistent need for news to be current and journalists trustworthy; and people's changed sense of themselves as they experienced newly opened windows on the world. By the close of the eighteenth century, Pettegree concludes, transmission of news had become so efficient and widespread that European citizens-now aware of wars, revolutions, crime, disasters, scandals, and other events-were poised to emerge as actors in the great events unfolding around them"--
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