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newspapers or nine? Why?
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{rom the past What do you know about them? How long
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Media milestones
The fst peuspapers appeared In ne 17th century, but
‘inary people us o buy them ofen because they
‘ere expensive. Tis changed in the 1850s with the inventen
{port ating presos, wich could prit 10,000 papers
Pu how. Asa result newspaper pies came down and more
ope could afford o buy them, Thank to anther nen
Imventon, the photograph, was als the fest ne that
newspaper contained pictures a we as ables.
When avoleana erupted an th Pci san of Kratos in
1883, tiled 36,000 people. I was oe ofthe worst natural
<isasersn story It was ak significant because it was the
fest vine tat news col rave around he wor a mites,
Using undersea electrical telegraph wires. Before te ler,
was invented used 1 take weeks for news to ae! to à
‘erent continent. News cf Abraham Linon death, fo
‘trample, tok ear two weeks fo each Europe in 1865,
In the ery 20H century, beor lesions became popula,
people used to gto e Cinema 1 wan the news. Termine
Fim called newsreels contained movng mages of fu or
five top ne tres. The news rel were change week,
et iy so the news wasn't aye upto date, Now
they ae important s soria documents, a they prone
the only suda eco of those times
A the start ole 2st century, developments in smartphone
technology andthe gout social meda Ik Te, Facebok
and Instagram have completa changed the way tat wo get.
‘ur news, Now aybody ean report nes. Ths sometimes
Calles caen ouralsm One of he st and most famous
examples of happened in New York in 2009 when plane
Carrying 150 passenger landed inthe Huck Rive ater a
flock of brs ew into the plane's engine. People who san the
{ash posts comments an peas en Twitter nd the news
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