Unit 1 Lesson 1

1. “ Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.” Charles Lamb, 1833 "If you want to see television stations panic, go to a town where the newspapers are on strike." Unattributed “ Most of us probably feel we couldn’t be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.” Edward R Murrow, US broadcast journalist, 1958 “’ The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous, licentious, abominable, infernal- Not that I ever read them! No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.’” Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic. Act I Scene II “ Newspapers cannot be defined by the second word -- paper. They’ve got to be defined by the first word -- news.” New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberg, Jr. They used to say man’s life was a closed book. So it is but it’s an open newspaper.” Finlay Peter Dunne, 1902

2. History of the Newspaper From the first Roman Newspaper to the Online Newspapers of Today