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 h

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...