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Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.bsky.social |
This is a novel approach we will learn from at Viral Texts, though as always I wish this team had a historian collaborator who could have nudged them to realize that only using front-page articles presumes papers in 1878 worked like papers in 1978, which they didn’t—breaking news was usually on pg 2
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Ryan Cordell
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Some larger urban dailies had moved to a more modern front page by the late 1870s, but the majority of papers had not—page one was for poems, fiction, less-urgent matter "going the rounds," and sometimes ads—some wire content would be there but I bet they’d find more inside the fold
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bri watson 🐝
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I didn't want to say it!!
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Jim Wald
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Excellent point! re: people assuming that genres, habits, and information consumption are static
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