Dealing with Newsmongers: News, Trust, and Letters in the British World, ca. 1670–1730

Lindsay O'Neill, from an examination of more than seven thousand pieces of correspondence from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, identifies epistolary patterns of news dissemination and consumption in Britain. The role of newspapers and coffeehouses in this dissemination has...

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Published in:The Huntington Library quarterly 2013-06, Vol.76 (2), p.215-233
Main Author: Lindsay O'Neill
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apostolic letters
British culture
Brothers
Consumer attitudes
Consumer behavior
Cousins
Credibility
Epistolography
Information dissemination
Letters of credit
News content
Public sphere
Social networks
Written correspondence
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Summary:Lindsay O'Neill, from an examination of more than seven thousand pieces of correspondence from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, identifies epistolary patterns of news dissemination and consumption in Britain. The role of newspapers and coffeehouses in this dissemination has been studied; letters functioned as part of a larger, fluid system of news exchange. News readers who mistrusted the news purveyed by newsmongers turned to their own epistolary social networks to obtain what they viewed as more accurate, trustworthy news.
ISSN:0018-7895
1544-399X
DOI:10.1525/hlq.2013.76.2.215