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The "Libertine Press"
May 5, 1870 issue

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There are loud wails from all parts of the world in which the press is free, over the growth of sensational, eavesdropping, scandalmongering, malignant, blackmailing journalism. The sins of the public with regard to the libertine press are by no means sins of carelessness simply. They absolutely connive at some of its worst abuses. For instance, the blackmailing of insurance companies has long been a regular business in this city, and the process consists simply in starting a periodical nominally devoted to insurance and subjects connected with it, and then asking the insurance companies to advertise in it on pain of being denounced as insolvent or declining, in case they refuse.

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JOURNALISM; PRESS; LITERATURE; INSURANCE companies; PUBLICITY; MASS media
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