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Show First "Scoop" Not So Much. Tho ilrst big "scoop" in Amcrlcnn Journalism uis "pulled off" by tlnj News-Letter In June, 1701, when n reporter re-porter was bent to write a "story" covering cov-ering tho execution of six pirates on the Charles liver. This pioneer reporter repor-ter turned In nn excellent story, und It filled nrnrlir half of ono Issue of the pnper. The loature of the nrtlcle, however, how-ever, wnd M prayer uttered by 11 minister min-ister on the scaffold, which was reproduced repro-duced "as near as could bo taken In writing In tho great crowd." Fresno (Cal.) Herald. |