When Robert Rintoul founded The Spectator in 1828, he began what is now the oldest publication in the English language. He noted that the purpose of the new magazine was ‘to convey intelligence. It is proposed in The Spectator to give the first and most prominent place to a report of all the leading occurrences of the week.’
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