News of the World - Orwell's Bye-Bye Line

[Clive G]

A snippet of Orwell used on the last page of the last edition of the 168
year old scandal sheet:

"It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already
asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long
walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose
and open the News of the World."

Checks in the post, George.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14106031

[Joe Fineman]

"Clive G" <okey...@f2s.com-nospam> writes:

He need hardly have been a fan of the _News of the World_ to recognize
it as a national institution. So also in Hoggart's _Uses of Literacy_
(1957):

the Sunday smell of _News of the World_-mingled-with-roast-beef;

According to Hoggart, it was actually read by a majority of the whole
population.
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[Clive G]

Joe Fineman wrote:
>
> He need hardly have been a fan of the _News of the World_ to recognize
> it as a national institution. So also in Hoggart's _Uses of Literacy_
> (1957):
>
> the Sunday smell of _News of the World_-mingled-with-roast-beef;
>
> According to Hoggart, it was actually read by a majority of the whole
> population.
>

Yes, sales of 8.4 million in the fifties suggests a very wide readership.

Picked up this penguin on the day the closure was announced
http://www.highflyer.f2s.com/images/clergymans_daughter2.jpg
- strange cover. I haven't read it yet, so no spoilers.

[Joe Fineman]

"Clive G" <okey...@f2s.com-nospam> writes:

> Picked up this penguin on the day the closure was announced
> http://www.highflyer.f2s.com/images/clergymans_daughter2.jpg -
> strange cover. I haven't read it yet, so no spoilers.

I hope *this* news won't spoil it, but Orwell himself regarded it as a
potboiler. I found it instructive, tho.

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--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net

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