The Christmas Fire

675.506 - 702.276 Alex Hortis

But then it becomes so popular and so addictive. to get this different kind of newspaper that it goes all the way up to the upper classes of New York City. The mayor, everyone was reading the penny press. So what made the penny press very different, it would cover murder and suicides. It would cover scandals. It was about sex. It was really, in many ways, the forerunners to our current tabloids.