Out of context
the 1890s, many of
them were packaging the news
"as a series of melodramas and
atrocities, of titillating events
covered as spectacles, com-
plete with illustrations."
Fox had sensed the enor-
mous potential audience
among the wage earners of the
Gilded Age. To workers seek-
ing escape from dull jobs-or
just relief from the Victorian
ethos-his G...