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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    —is simply a development of the news- gatherer of centuries ago. The craft is an ancient one; indeed, it has been main- tained that there were reporters at the siege of Jericho—facile penmen who described the blowing of the trumpets by the priests, the shouts of the people, the fall of the walls, and the destruction of the city by fire. This contention certainly is credit- able to the reporter’s imagination, whatever may be thought of its veracity. But it is more reasonable to assert that there were reporters in Rome during the sway of the Caesars; that when Venice was in her glory reporters sped along the water-ways in gondolas, or sauntered near St. Mark’s, collecting the light and learned gossip of the city; and that scarcely had printing got a foothold in England than reporters began their tireless search after facts—a search that they are still continuing with marvellous zeal, ingenuity, and ability, in