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This extract from 'Our Own Reporter' focuses on the trials of accurately reporting politicians who speak rapidly. The writer prefers orators such as Gladstone and Disraeli who pronounce every word distinctly.
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'Pains and Pleasures of Reporting' is an extract from 'Our Own Reporter'. The complete version was published in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, 212 (18 January 1868): 33-36.
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yThe Australasianvol.4no.11727 June (New Series)186879873151868newspaper issue 1868