London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
CHEAP JOURNALISM.
And the above consideration brings me once again to the subject of cheap journalism. The abolition of stamps on advertisements and the paper duty no doubt paved the way to the success of our lowpriced daily periodicals. We can give more for the money than of yore, and the School Board has sent us a sufficiency of readers. And this sufficiency is enough to supply the demand of all the proprietors. , and have their supporters, without trenching on the ground occupied by , and The more the merrier. And here I must refer to that marvel of cheapness, , a publication that has been admirably conducted for half a century. I have to thank its proprietors for allowing me to reproduce some of my writings in its columns anent Parliament. Papers increase in numbers, and paper readers keep pace with the production. So an enterviewed publisher told me the other day, and I believed him. | |