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Tabloid press alive and well in 1780
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Unknown | Report | 13 Aug 2005 14:51 |
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Unknown | Report | 13 Aug 2005 14:52 |
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Found this on the Norfolk Transcription Archive: Transcribed by: Janelle Penney Date Added: June 21, 2002 From Norfolk Chronicle 26 February 1780, P2, column 2. Supplied by the British Library Newspaper Library. 'Wednesday one John SEELY of Blofield was committed to the Castle on charge of bastardy: what is remarkable, the poor old gentleman is in the 80th year of his age, the young woman not 18.' nell |
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The Bag | Report | 13 Aug 2005 14:54 |
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No funnier today than then i suppose but ''there is life in the old boy yet'' springs to mind! jess x |
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Martin | Report | 13 Aug 2005 16:39 |
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I was reading accounts of public executions on one website and it was saying how the long speeches made by the condemned prisoners were usually made up by the reporters because it was what sold newspapers. So things have not changed. I read a book by a tabloid journalist years ago and he said how they would 'doorstep' some celebrity and often all the reporters would go off down to the pub together. If they all agreed on the same quotation from the celebrity or story then it would be very hard to prove that it was not true. MB |
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