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Blunders of the reporter		146
Exigencies of publication explain errors		147
Variations between headlines and reports		147
Errors by telephone		148
"Tricks of the trade"		148
"Temperament" of distinguished men		148
Deliberate errors of reporters		148
Incorrect impressions		149
Imaginative reports		149
Absence of proportion in reports		149
"Only the rich man is interesting"		149
Forehanded reports		150
Dangers of		150
Reports of Coronation of Edward VII		150
Variations due to weather		150
Mistranslation a source of error		151
Trials of reporters		151
Interest in reports varies with conditions		152
Reporter between two conflicting types		152
Other handicaps of the reporter		152
Emphasis on his work given by schools of journalism		152
"The man higher up"		153
Influence on his work of general press conditions		153
Specialization improving his work		154
Changing social status of reporter		154
The reporter as he is and as he is believed to be		155
The local report a fertile source of error		155
Legislative effort to reduce errors		155
The cheerful reporter		156
His errors many but their importance unduly magnified		156
Number of errors of reporter explains distrust of press		157
Errors of local reporter need not disquiet historian		157
Chapter VII
The Official Reporter
Development of the official reporter		158
Sir Symonds D'Ewes and his Journals		158
The Commons Debates for 1629		159
"Separates" and news-letters		160
News-letters in great demand		160
Edward Cave and the Gentleman's Magazine		161
Beginnings of parliamentary reporting		161
Opposition of Parliament		161