Talk:Avisa Relation oder Zeitung
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Morison's red herring
editI can't escape the impression that Morrison had only seen facsimiles, and was trying to be too clever by half. The Dutch couranten are not folio sized at all, but a half-folio single-sheet, following the existing handbill format. On this basis we should presumably call them "news-sheets" or "newsbills" rather than "newspapers". The first real folio newspapers were the Italian weeklies printed from mid-century (but printed as continuous text, without columns). The first daily news serial was a quarto printed in Leipzig from 1650 - but by Morison's definition this "daily newsbook" was not a "daily newspaper"!
Heinz-Dietrich Fischer's 1972 functional definition (publicity, seriality, periodicity, actuality) still does it far better than any attempt to define newspapers by format. --Paularblaster 22:04, 1 November 2007 (UTC)