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The Invention of News - How the World Came to Know About Itself (Paperback)
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The Invention of News - How the World Came to Know About Itself (Paperback)
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The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from
medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper 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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