The invention of news
how the world came to know about itself
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Word Count
111,250 words, Guess
Page Count
445 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveinventionofnewsh0000pett
- Internet Archiveinventionofnewsh0000pett_n0z0
- ISBN-100300179081
- ISBN-100300212763
- ISBN-139780300179088
and 6 more
- ISBN-139780300212761
- Library of Congress Control Number2013041978
- OCLC Control Number861677227
- Better World Books9780300179088
- Better World Books9780300212761
- Open LibraryOL27163563M
Classifications
- DDC070.09
- LCCPN5110 .P48 2014
- LCCPN4801
Description
"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."--Publisher information.
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