Abstract
We are used to thinking of news as stories about what happened, but under certain conditions news can also be competing versions of what will happen.1 Before the telegraph, satellite communications, or the Internet, people found ways to bring distant events closer and transform the future from a zone of uncertainty into a zone of action.2 During the English Civil War, for example, religious controversy and political uncertainty combined with the collapse of censorship and the explosion of print to favor highly politicized almanacs in which astrologers foretold the downfall of their enemies and the imminent victory of their allies.3 The American Revolution offered another dramatic
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