Newspaper reporting in olden time and to-day / by John Pendleton.

  • Pendleton, John.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Newspaper reporting in olden time and to-day / by John Pendleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    face of the earth.” Nor does Julius Ctesar, though he was not exactly a pattern of lovingkindness and tender mercy, appear to have subjected the Press to such indignity as our own Lord Marchmont, on whose motion in the House of Lords, in November 1759, the proprietor of the Gazetteer was compelled to apologise on his knees at the bar of the House for reporting that the thanks of Parliament had been given to Sir Edward Hawke for his victory! The Acta Diurna contained many of the features that make our own newspapers attractive. They noticed not merely im- portant but trivial events, such as, “ A stage- play was acted, this day being sacred to Cybele.” They gave accounts of murders, trials, punishments, elections, marriages, sacrifices, processions, imposing spectacles, the feats of foot-races, the encounters of gladiators, and the gossip of the time; but appaSrently they had not realised the value