AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.
No two things of the same kind can differ more in degree than uu American and an English newspaper. The former comes down to the level of the readers j the latter has always a pretension, at least of requiring its readers to come up to its own. Sensation is the American, as respectability is the English ideal. The vice of one country is occasional vulgarity, that of the other occasional dullness. The American editor has anticipated M. Villemessant, who, in taking the direction of the Figaro, laid down what he no doubt thought a new principle in journalism, namely, that his paper should be “ readable” from the fr ,c line to the last. An American paper is never slow, though it may have a hundred other imperfections. . . . It is eminently a journal of a nation of business men, who are willing to be amused, but do not care to be instructed, and who want to travel through even their amusements at railroad speed.— “Cassell's Magazine ,”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 499, 10 November 1871, Page 1 (Supplement)
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