PICTORIAL JOURNALISM (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Pictorial JournalismMan has been upon this planet for at least a million years. He has been able to write for some seven thousand or eight thousand years. Yet it is less than a century that he has had plentiful printing, and the real era of mass communication through the press is only about as old as the automobile. It had to wait for modern papermaking machinery and for the development of wood-pulp paper in 1840, for a rapid method of printing, made possible by the Hoe rotary press in 1845, for rapid typesetting, with the linotype in 1884 and the monotype in 1888.During a brief period the newspaper stood alone as mass purveyor of news. Today it has powerful competitors