The Cost of Starting a Free Press

The cost of even starting a newspaper massively rocketed, profitability went from you could make a radical newspaper profitable for about 6,000 at circulation at 6,200 before these things. The advertisers claim they weren't politically neutral but they weren't putting the advertisements in papers that were going to what they called the poor or working class because they're not going to be able to buy it. So they said that doesn't matter if you have a newspaper with massive amounts of circulation of radical newspaper as well generated by the working classes read by the working Classes. There's literally quotes in this book which talk about having a quarter of that circulation that goes to our student classes, advertisers would much rather flock there