The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300179081 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. 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.. This groundbreaking book tracks the history of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries. The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, l
Craig Carlson said Brilliant book. Sometimes the best way to understand the meaning of something is not to go through a blow-by-blow of all its attributes, but rather to experience how it came to be. Pettegree's history of news is a breath of fresh air, especially in an age where social media has us scurrying around trying to re-invent the wheel.The most prof. Over-excited verbiage: a missed opportunity Frustratingly diffuse and hyperbolic, for all the author's vast reading, and the unconscionable amount of praise it has unaccountably gathered, this is not 'proper' history, though doubtless it will serve to prop up many a media course. Besides having better pictures, Anthony Smith's The Newspaper: an International History d. A fascinating and surprising examination of the birth of news TechJunkie I found this book fascinating, but I've been a newspaper reporter in a major market for many years and of course it would be of interest to me. The insights are fascinating on the whys and wherefores of the spread of news. Of course the printing press was revolutionary, but this book examines the economics behind keeping tho
‘Andrew Pettegree’s The Invention of News is a fascinating book - beautifully written, admirably organized, with a mass of information about even the most recondite means of collecting and transmitting news before 1800.’—Alastair Hamilton, TLS (Alastair Hamilton TLS 2014-06-20)“Newspaper themselves were once new media. Yet as Andrew Pettegree explains in an elegantly written and beautifully constructed account, it took several centuries before they became the dominant medium for news.”—Peter Wilby, New