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No news!

What happens if there is no news?

Today’s tabloids usually resort to so-called ‘celebrity’ news but it wasn't always so.  From 1722 to 1726 the Gloucester Journal made at least five ‘apologies’ for having no news to provide.  They typically printed poetry instead, prefixing it with wording such as: ‘this post affording little news, we take the liberty to inse’rt…’ or ‘As this Day’s Post affords but little News, we hope the following lines will be acceptable to our Readers…‘ or ‘This Post bringing nothing material of Foreign News, we cannot better entertain our Readers, than the following small Poems…..’  One cannot imagine this happening in today’s media!

GA Ref.No: GJ/1722

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