ABSTRACT
Any tolerably clear-eyed person who made even occasional visits to Fleet Street proper—would meet men who might suggest that twenty years earlier Mugfordian or Bludyerian characteristics would have been more visible in them, but that was all. There is a point about the great expansion of periodicals and the consequent multiplication of "journalists" in the wide sense—very wide, for it is still thought good to indulge in the pleonasm daily journal and more often in the contradictions "weekly", "monthly", and even "quarterly" journal. The chapter explores that journalism is much less changed from journalism fifty years ago than this latter was from journalism not merely fifty but thirty years before. The multiplication of papers, and the fact that many of the new ones had no definite and carefully adjusted credo, was a distinct advantage. Few attempted fresh morning dailies, the expense being enormous, and the places being in a way occupied; but some evening papers effected a lodgment.
