MC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The New-England Courant, Gazette, Town Crier
27 Jan 2015
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What is newspaper: portable, predictable, accessible, cost effective, etc, a printed product containing news and printed daily or weekly, industry in disarray thanks to new media. Importance of newspaper: news- information (normally current) about an event that is gathered, processed, and disseminated to a significant number of people, news media- multiple media with news, deliver more in depth news. First newspaper: gutenberg"s press made the oxford gazette possible, publick occurrences both foreign and domestic, was not published continually, only one issue about the government, boston news-letter, published by authority. Interesting sidebar: common newspaper names, gazette: venetian from gazetta a small coin, courant: holland for corantos an information broadsheet, post: town criers would post a notice on doorposts. What makes a newspaper: published (at least) weekly, available (for a price) to all people, print news of general interest, readable by people of normal literacy, timely, stable over time.
