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The Free Press

Chapter 4 No.4

Word Count: 474    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

e utmost importance: Capitalist also in origin, and, therefore, inevitably exhibiting all the poisonous vi

e known much more widely and immediately through a newspaper than in any other fashion. He paid the

revenue not only what people paid in order to obtain it, but also what people paid in order to get their wares or needs known through it. It, therefore, could be

ed by the advertiser, and the man who printed the newspaper got more and more profit as he extended that circulation

advertising space rapidly rose. It became a more and more tempting venture to "start a newspaper," but at the same time, the development of capitalism made that venture more and more hazardous. It was more and more of a risky venture to start a new great paper even of a local sort, for the expense got gr

verywhere a venture or a property dependent wholly upon its advertisers. It had ceased to consider its

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“An insightful text exposing the workings of press and media industries. Belloc discovered fundamental conflicts of interest within mass media which resulted in heavy influences of advertisers and in some cases complete control of the industry. The model of selling for less than production cost with the balance made up from advertising is the flawed model used today in pretty much every major mass media house.”