Newspaper
The story of news paper as they now are begins at the end of the last century. During most of the century Britain’s newspaper were written as thought people’s favorite reading were the full reports of speeches of statesmen, speeches often running into pages of closely-set type. Few pictures, little entertainment, much turgid prose. What the proprietors failed to see was the growth of a new readership, a new generation taught to read as a result of lord Shaftesbury’s Education act, but not...