Define the impact of the penny press. Bring in the background for its development.

As a result the newss started gathering and publishing information from police stations , criminal courts and divorce courts to fill the spaces of their s and make it more interesting and appealing to their new public-the general public from the streets The newss of the day started competing with each other for publishing the stories first . In this way the newss started developing the social consciousness of the common man because of the revolution brought by the Penny Press (Thompson , 2004

It is a fact that in the early days of United

States the success of the newss owes itself to the attitude of the makers of this country towards free press . The reason is that many of the founding fathers of this country believe that in to maintain liberty and equality in this country free press must be made an integral part of the system Thomas Jefferson believed that free press is something more important than the government of the country "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newss , or newss without a government , I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter " However , The Penny Press did not pay much attention to the national politics of the country and maintained an apolitical policy both in content as well as in attitude

The breath taking changes made to the news during the Penny Press era set a strong precedent for the way newss published today . The Penny Press set the precedent and in the present days news relies heavily on advertising as a main source of income and that is also the major reason they are still being offered at relatively low prices . It has become a custom with newss that they pay more attention to their surrounding communities and report...