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These days? Well, the last 40 years... CNN started in 1980.

• evo_9 5y ago
  'Extra Extra Read All About it!' from anon newspaper kid standing on the street-corner ~100+ years ago (probably older).
  • a4isms 5y ago
    That had a literal meaning at one point, but then it got diluted. Newspapers were published several times a day when I was a child, so the late edition would have things that happened in the afternoon. If something very big happened, they would put out an “extra” edition and trucks would race to get the extras out to the newsstands, newspaper boxes, and corner stores. A news agent shouting “Extra! Extra!” was originally informing people that something had happened and the news was in the freshly printed “extra” edition, so even if they’d already bought a paper that day, they’d be motivated to buy another. https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/extra_extra_read_all_about_it_newsboy_shout https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/ext...
  • scarecrowbob 5y ago
    Yeah.... remember The Maine ?
  • kleer001 5y ago
    Not really the same thing. That's just once a day. If we wanna go deep we can talk about the evolutionary origins of gossip. I'm sure being a social animal with complex signs and individual identities demands communication about one's neighbours and peers. What I mean is a constantly televised high bandwidth audio visual stream. That's only 40 years old.
    • aidenn0 5y ago
      An extra was for news not in the daily paper.