The overall goal of the project was to understand how information spread and the dispersed public opinion during the 1918 epidemic, the influenza pandemic.
Many different newspapers and their titles were looked at to determine the way in which the news about the pandemic was spread throughout the time period.
When researching the many newspapers, many different tones were used throughout the titles. Alarming, warning, explanatory and reassuring tones were all used throughout, going to show the many different ways the news was spread to the people and can often be inferred how the people perceived it.