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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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