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13.4.41 [George Orwell]

April 13, 2011 in Connolly, Evening Standard, Famel Cough Syrup, France, Greece, Hitler, Libya, Near East, Persil, Political, Sunday Express, Sunday Pictorial, War-time, Worthington, advertisements, diary by orwelldiaries

No real news at all about either Greece or Libya…Of the two papers I was able to procure today, the Sunday Pictorial was blackly defeatist and the Sunday Express not much less so. Yesterday’s Evening Standard has an article by “Our Military Correspondent”… which was even more so. All this suggests that the newspapers may be receiving bad news which they are not allowed to pass on…God knows it is all a ghastly mess. The one thing that is perhaps encouraging is that all the military experts are convinced that our intervention in Greece is disastrous, and the military experts are always wrong.

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1.7.40 [George Orwell]

July 1, 2010 in Balbo, Durutti, Express, Fritsch, Mola, News Chronicle, Political, RAF, Spain, Spanish, Vidal, War-time, advertisements, newspapers, propaganda by orwelldiaries

Newspapers now reduced to 6 pages, i.e., 3 sheets[1]. Print reduced in size. Rough analysis of to-day’s News-Chronicle: 6 pages = 48 columns. Of these (excluding small adverts. besides headlines on front page) 15 columns or nearly one third are adverts. About 1½ columns of this are taken up in notices of situations vacant, etc., but the greater part of the ad.s are for more or less useless consumption goods. The financial columns also overlap with the advertisements, some of the reports of directors’ meetings, etc., probably being paid for by the companies themselves.

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