POWER AND VALUE OF THE PRESS.
Negotiations have been on foot by two parties, one in England, and one represented in Paris, for the purchase of the London Daily Telegraph. The only question is a matter of price. The sum asked is £850,000. The circulation is an average of 200,000 , daily," and Lawson, Levy, and Moss are willing to sell and start a new paper. -The Times is rapidly losing circulation and influence. Its circulation does not exceed 75,000 daily, if so much on the average. Its editorials are laden and prosy, inopportunely scientific, and often silly for a leading journal of Europe. I am assured that a; new "management" will be shortly established to give to the Thunderer mores, ozone at least. The, Daily News is the next most progressive daily London paper, its circulation being on an average 120,000 per per day. But when you, think of the cabmen's paper here, the Petit Journal, having a verified circulation of 600,000 per day, figures fade elsewhere. But reflect what is conveyed in these 600,000 " petit journals." Poison and filth, partizan feeling and personal animosities. Such a circulation of such sentiments argues only a social sin.—Paris Correspondent of BflltimoreSun^_^ ..
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3068, 14 December 1878, Page 4
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199POWER AND VALUE OF THE PRESS. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3068, 14 December 1878, Page 4
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