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During the nineteenth century the press changed because of changing attitudes in society, advances in technology and changes in law.
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During the nineteenth century the press changed because of changing attitudes in society, advances in technology and changes in law. The press changed gradually over this course with certain people playing an important role in this progression. The first thing to consider is the feelings towards the press from the turn of the eighteenth century into the nineteenth century. It was a time of popular agitation where the government sought to suppress free political expression through various strategies. Some of these included fining editors and giving them prison sentences, sensitive material had to pass official censors before being published, the Stamp Tax was increased in 1815 and again in 1819 as attempts to try and limit the number of radical papers in circulation and the government also paid proprietors money in order to buy the papers' support and to prevent them from publishing offensive reports. The early nineteenth century therefore...
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