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Newspaper World; Essays on Press History and Work, Past and Present

Newspaper World; Essays on Press History and Work, Past and Present

Baker, Alfred

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151322083
ISBN13: 9781151322081
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. LINERS AND LINEAGE. The beadle is very careful that two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons (for whose accommodation he has provided a special little table... j should see all that is to be seen. For they are the public chroniclers of such inquiries, by the line.--Dickens ( Bleak House ). graphic news agencies and resident reporters all over the country, the liner has long since perforce confined his operations principally to the metropolis. London daily newspapers still rely on the liner for many items of information, and have, in fact, no staff of reporters available for dealing with metropolitan local news, such as provincial newspapers employ for the collection of the news of their own town and district. Indeed, when we consider the vast extent of London, it is evident that to attempt to do anything of the kind would be practically impossible. London newspapers, in point of fact, concern themselves only with subjects of Imperial and general interest, and the bulk of the daily public life of the metropolis either goes unreported, or is dealt with partially b'y the district weekly papers. More than one writer on the subject has been struck by the phenomenon, that hitherto London has been without a great local newspaper which should report the proceedings of public bodies in the adequate way familiar to residents in the country who support their own local organs. No capitalist has, up to the present, however, shown any disposition to embark on a rather costly and certainly hazardous enterprise, though F late years the sphere of operations of the penny-a-liner--on whose exploits many press writers of the old school loved to dwell--has been seriously contracted. With telewith the greater interest which is being stimulated amo...

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