In covering the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, the Gazette and Daily in York made its first extensive use of photographs delivered via a phone line.
\nThe daily newspaper played with its news technology by running a July 1 photograph of Santa Barbara, damaged by an earthquake two days earlier.
\nSo when the Tennessee trial began a week later, the morning daily was ready to harvest photos from the phone wire, called “wire photos.”
\nThe Gazette and Daily ran about 10 single photos or photo packages of the trial.
\nWhen state’s attorney William Jennings Bryan died shortly after the trial, the newspaper ran a photo of his funeral and a photo package consisting of at least four wire photos including a remarkable photo of the house where Bryan died. Some editor had placed crosses on the picture at the place where Bryan was “lying when the end came\u203f and the porch where his wife was sitting when informed of her husband’s death.
\nEighty years later, technology played a major role in news coverage of the federal judge’s decision in the Dover ID case… .<\/p>\n