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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    of two items of modern news that never grow stale—the perennial account of the centenarian who can read without spectacles and retains his faculties to the last, and the thrilling story of the slippery sea-serpent that has successfully defied capture for the past century. The actuarii, the Roman reporters, had comparatively little use for their stenography after Caesar’s death. The privilege of pub- lishing the Acta Diurna was withdrawn; and from this period until the early part of the sixteenth century newspapers, so far as can be ascertained from available records, were practically dead. But in a letter dated Rome, September 1513, from the Cardinal of York to Henry VIII., about “The Battle of the Spurs,” occurs this passage: “After this newes afforesaide was d)rvulgate in the citie here; ” and Chalmers, the author of The Life of Ruddiman, says there were news- sheets in Augsburg and Vienna in 1524.