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The Vermont Standard is the oldest continuously-published weekly newspaper in the U.S State of Vermont.It is based in Woodstock, Vermont. [1] The newspaper was founded in 1853 and covers local sports, business and community events serving the town of Woodstock and the surrounding communities of Windsor County. [2]
The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information (1996) Walker, Robin B. "The newspaper press in the reign of William III." Historical Journal 17#4 (1974): 691–709. in JSTOR; Williams, Keith. The English Newspaper: An Illustrated History to 1900 (1977) Williams, Kevin. Read All About it: a History of the British ...
17 October – The Beatles make their first televised appearance, on Granada television's north west local news programme People and Places. [ 7 ] 21 October – The first American Folk Blues Festival European tour plays its only UK date at the Free Trade Hall , Manchester ; artists include Sonny Terry , Brownie McGhee and T-Bone Walker .
4 March – The national tabloid newspaper Today launches from Wapping. It pioneers the use of computer photo typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress. [5] 5 March – The High Court disqualifies and fines 81 Labour councillors for failing to set a rate.
February – Work begins on extending the Piccadilly line of London Underground at Heathrow Airport to serve the new Terminal 4. [5]1 February – TV-am launches on ITV. [4]3 February – Unemployment stands at a record high of 3,224,715 – though the previous high reached in the Great Depression of the early 1930s accounted for a higher percentage of the workforce.
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" [2] [3] (the slogan from which its integrated WGN radio and television received their call letters), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region.
scare headlines in huge print, often sensationalizing minor news lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudoscience , and a parade of false learning from so-called experts
The Chicago Daily Tribune, which had once referred to Democratic candidate Truman as a "nincompoop", was a famously Republican-leaning paper. [2] In a retrospective article some 60 years later about the newspaper's most famous and embarrassing headline, the Tribune wrote that Truman "had as low an opinion of the Tribune as it did of him".