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

  • Pendleton, John.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    These are wonderful stories; yet it must not be imagined that the newspaper was made up entirely of such Baron-Munch- hausenlike writing. Current events were chronicled, and in the main chronicled faithfully; and perhaps one of the earliest examples of English reporting is to be found in this century—an account of the great London Fire, given in the London Gazette in 1666 :— “ On the 2nd inst., at one of the clock in the morning, there happened to break out a sad and deplorable fire in Pudding Lane, near New Fish Street, which falling out at that hour of the night, and in a quarter of the town so close built with wooden pitched houses, spread itself so far before day, and with such distraction to the inhabitants and neighbours, that care was not taken for the timely preventing the further effusion of it by pulling down houses as ought to have been; so that