A great hoax of the 19th century was perpetrated by a newspaper that tried to make its own news. Desperate to increase its readership, the New York Sun ran stories of an amazing telescope that magnified objects 42,000 times. Moreover, the telescope showed there was life on the moon. During these sensational reports, the paper’s circulation rose from 2,500 to 19,000.
In search of revenue
Posted - 26 March 2005 : 8:41:13 PM
