April 15, 1865 New York Herald's

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(03-07-2013 07:44 PM)historybuff22 Wrote:  The biggest difference is the amount of coverage. Today, when a major news event happens, we are lucky if there are 300-500 words on the event and there are lots of "sound bites," e.g. "It was horrible." "It was awful," etc. For Lincoln's assassination, the typical length of the articles were 10,000 words or more. Eyewitness accounts ran 300-600 words each. For major battles of the Civil War, like Gettysburg, Bull Run, etc. they too contained 10,000 words or more. Even minor battles utilized a couple thousand words.

These days, alas, nobody would read newspapers publishing that way. Unless, maybe, they were about that Kardashians or Dancing With the Stars.