Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wherever they rose, last week's swollen yellow rivers made news (see p. 17). At the same time, they played hob with news-gathering organizations by filling presses with mud, wrecking power lines, deranging communication. Total damage to newspaper properties soared above...
Though telephones held out, power failure soon drove all three Pittsburgh papers out of town. To the Washington, Pa. Observer & Reporter scurried the Scripps-Howard Press, ran off 125,000 copies of an eight-page flood extra. Paul Block's Post-Gazette borrowed the office of the Newcastle News, got out enough papers for 70,000 of its 204,139 readers, then slogged on to the larger plant of the Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator. The Sun-Telegraph hurried a crew 30 miles to publish on the presses of the Greensburg Tribune & Review...
First really big story for Colonial editors was the repeal of the Stamp Act, which they considered a punitive tax and a fetter to a free press. Still in rebellious mood, the Boston Weekly News-Letter on Dec. 2, 1773 boldly addressed its readers with a call to arms against the British. "FRIENDS! BRETHREN! COUNTRYMEN!" shouted the News-Letter's, front page. "That worst of plagues, the detested TEA, shipped for this Port by the East-India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour; the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares...
Citizens of Boston soon tossed the "detested T E A" into Boston Harbor, thus enabling the News-Letter to report that "a number of brave and resolute men dressed in the Indian manner ... in the space of three Hours . . . broke up 342 Chests...
Early U. S. journalism was not always so phlegmatic. When the end of the Revolution came with the downfall of Cornwallis, the editor of the Philadelphia Freemen's Journal or the North American Intelligencer printed the news in type four times normal size. "BE IT REMEMBERED!" thundered the Freemen's Journal, "that on the 17th day of October, 1781 Lieut. Gen. Charles Earl Cornwallis, with above 5,000 British troops, surrendered themselves prisoners of war to His Excellency, Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces of France and America. LAUS...