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The Birth of the American NewspaperIt has been said that the true newspaper must meet these qualifications (1) it must be published at least once a week (2) it must be produced by mechanical means (to distinguish it from handwritten "newes letters") (3) it must be in stock(predicate) to anyone willing to pay the price, regardless of class or special interest (4) it must print anything of interest to a general existence, as contrasted with some of the phantasmal and business publications (5) it must have an appeal to a public of ordinary literary skill (6) it must be timely, or at least relatively so, in the light of technical development and (7) it must have stability, as contrasted to the fly-by-night publications of more primitive times. -Emery and Smith, 1954     Before the printing process press or printing plates hand written pamphlets were the means for communicating anything over a distance of land or sea. Documentation, for those who were lit erate, played major roles in politics long forwards todays modern Sunday Advertisers. In 1566, the Venetian Magistracy ordered accounts of the war in Dalmatia to be read and posted in public places. Persons interested in this news paid a small coin, called a gazetta, for the privilege of obtaining it. As far back as 69 BC, news sheets know as Acta Diurna were posted in public places in Rome (Emery and Smith, 1954)."      It might be said that the newsp...