The Invention of News Quotes

“The most successful ran a shop full of scribes turning out several dozen copies a week. These avvisi were succinct, wide ranging and remarkably well informed.”
― Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself

“There has been more error propagated from the press in the last ten years than in a hundred years before,’ was the jaundiced judgement of John Adams, second president of the United States, and a frequent victim of press vituperation and ridicule.9”
― Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself