y
to get advertisment for the
B c paper and they had
o rely I'rily on circu-
tion for income.
Doth r problem
high degree of turnover of
reporters, Th non- Bl c
pr had more money and
could offer reporters more
money. a re ult lots of
ood reporter left, 1 ving
th Bla press with a large
turn-o r of iter.
But the ajority of
the papers 0 rcame pro­
b ms of this kind and the
B pre continued to
flourish.
tb number of pap­
er increa d so did the criti­
cism . One' being th t
soon th bl ck person
become more into th flo
pre ha
ry cei
in 1827. Today
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main- tream of society,
the blac pre will die.
So far this has been
proven untru . Today there
are 0 r 350 BI c papers
in the U.s. and in e d of
dying off, the Blae pre
em to be growing stron­
ger in number e ery year.
Adverti r are starting
to recognize Blacks as
trong con umer . And a
direct result of this, blac
no have 34 billion dollar
buying po r in the U.s.
So th future of the
BI ck pre ems quite
good. Perhap beca the
Blac pr and 0 L Y the
Bla pre ab to
the B c
ence in our
is today.
John B.
Russ nn
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