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Article: Attempts to clear the fog of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870
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- The Irish Times
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- September 21, 2009
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SEPTEMBER 2 1ST, 1870: Modern war reporting is usually dated from
Irish journalist William Russell's reports for theTimesfrom the
Crimean War in the early 1850s, which described for the first time
the horrors of combat with the help of the telegraph which greatly
speeded up communications. Twenty years later, the Franco-Prussian
War dominated the pages ofThe Irish Timesas German forces encircled
Paris and eventually starved it into submission in January 1871.
Getting a clear picture of what was happening in any war, then as
now, was difficult and the newspaper relied on a wide collection of
disparate sources, from news agencies to reports in other
newspapers, to provide this mosaic of ...