‘It’s Thrilling’ Nearly 300 years of pioneering newspaper go online (The Guardian, June 2025 p. 16) 📰
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Why does the author juxtapose the arrest of Dick Turpin’s father with cannon fire in St Petersburg and a horse falling into the Thames in the opening paragraph?
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What function does the parenthetical observation—‘In fact, the paper is so old that it predates the switch to the Gregorian calendar’—serve in the argument about historical significance?
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When the author notes that theft adverts were illustrated with ‘woodcut prints of the devil’, what conceptual association is being activated—and why is it significant to the paper’s early identity?
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What does the phrase ‘a vessel of memory’—though not explicitly used in the text—best capture about the News Letter’s role, based on how its archival function is described?
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Why does the author cite the discrepancy between the News Letter’s publication of the Declaration of Independence and the earlier London printings—not to correct a misconception, but to advance a broader point about historical mediation?
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What does the co-location of the Titanic’s triumphant launch report and its sinking headline—five days apart, yet in the same physical edition—reveal about the epistemological conditions of early 20th-century news production?
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What does the description of Francis Joy’s death—‘given a single sentence’ while Franklin received a ‘lengthy obituary’—imply about the paper’s evolving relationship to transatlantic intellectual hierarchies?
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Why does the author quote Ben Lowry saying the archive is ‘very important history, but above all, it’s very readable and enjoyable history’—and how does this framing challenge conventional historiographical hierarchies?
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What does the repeated emphasis on ‘two pages’—for the earliest editions—and ‘just two pages’—in the description of content composition—signal about the epistemic constraints shaping early news cognition?
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When the author observes that early editions were ‘largely made up of letters from around the world, or material relayed from other sources’, what implicit contrast is being drawn with the newspaper’s later identity—and why does this matter to the article’s central thesis?
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