Robert Darnton on the Media in 18c Paris [audio 12min @39:20]

Princeton historian Robert Darnton is the author of many books, including George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. Darnton tells Steve Paulson that people in 18th century Paris spread the news by making up topical songs to familiar melodies, and that the police kept records on everybody.