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Extra! Extra! How the People Made the News - Paperback (Paperback, New)
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Extra! Extra! How the People Made the News - Paperback (Paperback, New)
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Rowing on the Waitemata to grab the latest news from incoming
ships. Rushing out a special afternoon edition to the paper boys'
cries of 'Extra! Extra!' Crime and shipping news, the arrival of
Governor Grey and the fall of Ruapekapeka Pa. From the
mid-nineteenth-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the
Southern Cross to the establishment of the New Zealand Herald and
the Auckland Star as the two papers that would dominate Auckland
newspaper life through the twentieth century, the story of
Auckland's newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals
much about the history of the people and the press in New Zealand.
In Extra! Extra! David Hastings, an accomplished journalist and
historian, has undertaken substantial research on numerous
newspapers in one period in one town in order both to tell that
story and to tackle larger questions. Was it politics or commerce,
readers' whims or something else that drove the rise and fall of
newspaper empires? Did newspapers lead or follow public opinion on
social and political issues? Were they shaped by their owners or
their editors? And was the newspaper world in 1900 driven by
different forces than that of 1845? The newspaper wars of
nineteenth-century Auckland were life or death struggles - with the
odds heavily in favour of death. Extra! Extra! tells the story of
the newspapers, the editors and reporters and owners who made them,
and the readers who decided what was news and which papers would
live or die.
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