The Patterer

The Patterer is a satire of today's TV news business, imagining what it might have been like if invented by a smart aleck street performer in 18th century London. Leeds Merriweather is inspired to create the Live News Performance after a chance, drunken encounter with Benjamin Franklin. He hires a zany cast of characters to pull it off and achieves fame as history's first news broadcaster, only to risk it all in a scandalous relationship with a conniving wench.

• | Author: Larry Brill
• | Publisher: Black Tie Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 17, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 314 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0988864339
• | ISBN-13: 9780988864337