What constitutes news? How has the definition changed over the last century or so? We’ll take a look back at a time when “news” meant something different with Matthew Goodman, author of the new book “The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth Century New York” (Basic Books, 2008).
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