So what to do with old newspapers (especially given the crap written in them at times). Well let’s look at the history to possibly understand its importance better first!
For Willem
The newspaper as we know it today is a product borne of necessity, invention, the middle class, democracy, free enterprise, and professional standards.
Choose your historical marker to begin the history of newspapers. The first news sheet? The first newspaper? The first daily newspaper?
Pre-history “newspapers” were one-to-one in nature. The earliest variation on a newspaper was a daily sheet published in 59 BC in Rome called Acta Diurna (Daily Events), which Julius Caesar ordered posted throughout the city. The earliest known printed newspaper was in Beijing in 748.
In 1451, Johannes Gütenberg uses a press to print an old German poem, and two years later prints a 42-line Bible — the significance being the mass production of print products, ushering in an era of newspapers, magazines, and books. By 1500, the genesis of a postal system can be seen in France, while book publishing becomes popular throughout Europe and the first paper mill can be found (England).
Zeitung (newspaper) is a news report published in Germany in 1502, while Trewe Encountre becomes the earliest known English-language news sheet in 1513. Germany’s Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, in 1609, is the first regularly published newspaper in Europe. Forty-four years after the first newspaper in England, the Oxford Gazette is published, utilising double columns for the first time; the Oxford/London Gazette is considered the first true newspaper. The first North American newspaper, Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, was published in 1690 in Boston.
The 1700s was a century in which market elements were created that encouraged the development of daily newspapers: rising literacy, the formation of nation-states, a developing postal system, the proliferation of urban centers, a rising literary and philosophical tradition emphasising democratic involvement in government, and technologies that supported newspaper production. In short, it was a great news century. The first daily newspaper was The Daily Courant in London, 1702. In 1754, The Daily Advertiser in London uses the first four-column format. France’s first daily newspaper appears in 1777, Journal de Paris, while the first United States daily was the Pennsylvania Packet in 1784.
The rise of the middle class transformed newspapers in the 1800s. A penny (US$0.01) buys a New York newspaper in 1833, opening up the first mass market for newspapers. In 1847, the telegraph is used as a business tool, transforming far-away stories. In 1873, an illustrated daily newspaper can be seen in New York. In 1878 the first full-page newspaper advertisements appear, and in 1880 the first photographs are seen in newspapers, using halftones.
With the basic technical groundwork for the modern newspaper in place by the late 19th century, the story of newspapers in the 20th century was about professional development and adaptation to changing consumer and media markets. The story also involved an evolving business model that rode an ever-growing wave of mass-market advertising. Increased profitability and higher revenues attracted publicly owned corporations interested in buying newspapers from descendants of company founders, while simultaneously exposing newspapers to the whims of cash- and profit-hungry stock markets.
By 2000, newspapers were juggling priorities: fragmentation of news consumption, fragmentation of advertising investments, the advantages and disadvantages of being a mass medium, balancing the wants of the marketplace with the company’s duty to provide the needs of the marketplace, a journalistic backlash against industry changes, the sheer physicality of ink-on-paper production and distribution versus digital distribution, increasing profit pressure surrounding the core print product, and extension of the company’s core brand into other profit centers.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
WOW
much impreSSed with Rasputin’s Cuz!
Mind you I am almost tOO scared now to put in use Numbah 1
Let me then start with Use no 2
Starting the brAAi!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Reply to WiLLem @ 1:59 pm:
The I will use number two to use for when you have a number two!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Let me do it then
aLL ready read Newspaper Use # 1
Backup T paper when Tpaper has not yet bEEn replaced or is reaLLy reaLLy unavailable
Eish – daktEEls come to mind though!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Reply to Morné @ 2:08 pm:
June 30th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
aLLready read Newspaper Use # 3
Elton & Jan(and DavidS) use it to put under the sump when they chage oil in the drive way!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Never use Newspaper use #1 for a number #2 except in the most dire circumstances
the ink have lasting very very negative physiological effects
June 30th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Use #4
roll it up
and
bliksem the little dog pissing in the house
looks mean
makes moerse lawaai
zero to little bodily-damage to doggie
June 30th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I see #2
use for braai is already mentioned
here is to improving that usage
crunch one sheet into ball
pour old-cooking-oil over it
use in place of blits/fire-lighters
last nearly as long
but
sooooo much cheaper and available
June 30th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Reply to The Brand @ 2:49 pm:
O, as die ink afgee is jy ‘n swartgat?
June 30th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Surely, there must be more than 4. Please find more.
Newspaper circulation is declining rapidly and advertising revenue is falling even faster.
For many in the business, it’s the end of the world as they know it.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
#5
House training puppies
#6
Protection sheets for windows when painting, spary painting.
#7
Wrapping paper
#8
Covering paper for schoolbooks
#9
Shred and use at the bottom of mouse or hamster cages for warmth
#10
Use inbetween or around breakable materials when moving house!!!
There you have it, my part done!
June 30th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
#11 steady a rocking table
June 30th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
#12
Wrap around frozen Snoek when travelling far as it keeps the Snoek frozen for much longer!
June 30th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I just notice we have gone past 400K comments on RuggaWorld!
Imagine how many letter you would have had to send to a newspaper in the old days to air your views!!!
June 30th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
# 13 roll it up, then you have a brilliant weapon to moer the dog with when the Golden Lions loose once more :rant:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Reply to Morné @ 3:52 pm:
and who was number 400K???
June 30th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
#15 – They can be pulped and then drained and set in moulds that is specially designed – like bricks – the are excelent winter fuel if you have a kaggel.
#16 – The can be used as above as material for low cost housing – has excelent insulation.
#17 – bottom of the budgies cage
#18 – wetted and stuck in the front of new rugby boots to stretch them.
#19 – a few sheets next to the chopping board when cutting vegetables and peeling vegetables is great – chuck all the off cuts and skins on there – at the end just bundle it and chuck in bin.
#20 – Wrap a fish in it and then wet and then chuck directly on the coals. Give 10 minutes – 5 a side – and take off and enjoy.
#21 – If you are a bergie – they make excelent insulation in winter – crumple and stick in clothes to keep cold out.
#22 – Wrap any frozen food in there before trip. Keeps it frozen longer.
#23 – Cut out words to paste on a sheet to use as a ransom note when kidnapping someone. – Hey it is a use.
#24 – Rolled tightly with a 1.5cm hole through the middle they can be used as a blowpipe on Survivor.
#25 – Paper Mache
come on lads – think of more.
Cheers
June 30th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Reply to fyndraai @ 3:30 pm:
indEEd
somebody has hit the muDDalode as far as the reason for the thread is concerned!
Sad though!
but if you are a trEEhuGGer- you should be celebrating….
June 30th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Reply to WiLLem @ 2:12 pm:
ek het gedink dat die ouens van bloem gebruik ou mielies?
June 30th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Reply to cab @ 5:46 pm:
hehehe
waTTer dEEl Cab
doe ou stronk of die ou blAAr
dit gAAn nogals ‘n verskil mAAk!
June 30th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Reply to WiLLem @ 5:50 pm:
die ou stronk, dink dut was wat grandpappy en ouma cabberina het met die langdrop gebruik…kannie n lekker gevoel wees soos two-ply nie?
June 30th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Reply to Methos @ 4:55 pm:
Health Tip:
Newspaper contains about 30% filler material, which is normally clay or ash (depending on the cheapest source for the mill).
Ash is often obtained from coal burning power stations and will contain heavy metals and other nasties that one do not really want to eat.
That is just the paper. I have no idea what they use in the ink but I will no take chances and eat fish cooked in wet newspaper.
It may fry your brain and cause you to loose your shirt playing poker.
Cheers
June 30th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Reply to JT – http://www.rugby-innsbruck.at @ 4:17 pm:
According to my calculation
it was you.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
fyndraai
It is a FISH dish – not fish and newspaper dish. Perhaps I should have been clearer.
Wrap a fish in it and then wet and then chuck directly on the coals. Give 10 minutes – 5 a side – and take off NEWSPAPER and fish skin DISCARD and enjoy the meat of the fish.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/recipes/article1866455.ece
They obviously use wussy english coals – not african hardwood.
Cheers
June 30th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Reply to Methos @ 6:31 pm:
When you wet the paper you loosen the bonds between the fibers and the filler materials so many of the small particles in the paper will be in the fish by the time you eat it.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Use # whatever – apparently some Pommie Special Forces okes from something called the SAS (or SOS if you’re Ali G) can moer yu dead with a newspaper…
Use # next = let’s get somber – in 2005 some criminals used newspapers to wrap a six month old white baby in before they set her alight and burnt her to death… when they got to trial apparently this was their way of making us pay for four hundred years of apartheid…
June 30th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Ek onthou nog die gevoel
en daai reuk as jy die
koerant so vars van die
rolpers haal.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
En as jy by Vrye Weekblad of rand daily Mail gewerk het die klank van die sekuriteits polisie se blaffende hinde terwyl die boere die koerant lees om te besluit of jy gaan publiseer of nie…
Was eenkeer saam met my sussie by so “geleentheid” gewees… of eerder haar eks.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Uhmmmm
Naand boertjie
Hoe gannit ou toppie.
My vrou is bed toe, en ek het uiteindelik gas vir my gas verwarmer opgespoor vandag.
ten minste is ons huis weer warm…
June 30th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 10:22 pm:
Lekker dae, son en 22 grade.
Aande natuurlik bietjie kouer.
Sal moet dink aan gas, noudat ons
weer ons gatte moet af betaal vir
Eksdom se fokops.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 10:21 pm:
RDM was regte gif. So giftig dat sy
liberale Engelse lesers hom verwerp
het.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Lekker warm hier – 24 – maar so warm en bedompig soos Durban. Het vanmiddag gelukkig reen gehad – Touchies in die reen gespeel. Is nou lekker afgekoel.
Fyndraai
Ok – draai dan maar eers die vissie toe in foelie, dan in die koerant papier. Ok – almal happy ?
Cheers
June 30th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Jhb
-1 op die oomblik
p–es koud
Ek haat jou Methos…
June 30th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
een of ander vaginal discharge in my straat se honde is op straat…. nou blaf al wat ‘n f–kken hond is in die straat vir hulle.
Goeie ding is dis ‘n alsation en Boerboel so ons sal nie kriminele in ons straat kry vanaand nie…
June 30th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 10:41 pm:
Ek was een winter ‘n paar dae
daar. Voel of jou murg vries.
Hier seker so +6-8 C.
Was die somer van 2000 ‘n paar
dae in Londen. Kon nie glo dit
voel nes Durban nie.
En fkt, dis maar ‘n ou plat
landjie – niks hoër as ‘n miershoop
nie.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Ek het warm baadjie van Duitsland af bestel op 22 Junie.
Volgens Duitsland DHL het hy 25 Junie by ORT aangekom
Dis nou die 30ste en hy’s nog steeds nie by my nie.
Hoe de hel travel die ding 26 000 km in drie dae, maar 4 km kan hy nie in 5 dae travel nie?
June 30th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 10:43 pm:
Beste raad vir blaffende hond:
Druk vierduim-stuk tuinslang in
sy hol. Kan nie pressure opbou
nie, blaf klink whif! whif!
pleks van WHOOF! WHOOF!
Moenie sê ek het jou vertel nie.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 10:46 pm:
Want die laaste 4 km is in die Nuwe
SA.
Die laaste paar dae met Medscheme
geskakel, moet sê hulle is nogal
oppie bôl.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
DavidS
Elke hond kry sy dag – onthou – hier by ons was dit vir 3 maande nie warmer as 5 Garde nie. Ons somer is beter die jaar – laasjaar was ons somer op ‘n Woensdag.
Cheers
June 30th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
My boetie bly in Essen in Duitsland…
Klaarblyklik nogals warm daar ook vandag..
June 30th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Reply to Methos @ 10:57 pm:
Ja maar julle huise is gebou en ingerig vir die kak.
Ons s’n is gebou vir die nege maande lange somer wat ons hier het.
My een swaer is van Switserland en hy het my vertel die koudste wat hy ooit was was sy eerste winter in Jhb…
June 30th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Reply to Methos @ 10:57 pm:
Bwahahahhaaaaaa
June 30th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 11:05 pm:
Vriendin van my het gaan bergklim so 3 weke gelede
Hoogste berg in Noord America – Alaska’s Denali (sp)
sy sê twee weke lank MINUS 45 grade celsius
buite in die wind en weer
stap met 45 kg op rug en 20 odd kg sleep agterna op slee
bou elke aand “krale” met sneeu blokke om wind te stop tente wegwaai
fok ek moan NOOIT weer oor koud kry nie
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Okei nag manne ek gaan agter die wit boude inkruip…
June 30th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
TB
Fokkit – dit klink koud. Ons het laasjaar ‘n party by vriende se huis gehad – piskoed in die winter. kuier to al van vroegmiddag af – ek is toe al hoog in die takke – smabuca se skuld. Besluit toe ek gaan bietjie buite gaan stap in die koue om op te sober. Trek my ski baadtjie aan en daar gaat ek – stap ‘n draai en en kom terug – besluit om gou sigaret buite te rook – sit teen agterdeur – in sneeu – word haluur wakker toe my vrou deur agter my oopmaak om my te kom soek – aan die slaap geraak – kyk pappa – toe is sambuca die mees welkomste ding onder die son – net om weer gevoel in die holle te kry
Het vandag my nuwe tokse gekry. Mitre – nie te bad nie – my eerste blades. Gebruik dit nou dat die veld hard is.
Gaan vir my die tokse koop vir die seisoen.
http://www.newitts.com/product/IT024071/Adidas_Predator_Rugby_Boots.htm
Cheers