Terry Kirby
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660 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Terry Kirby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For instance, when I was writing about the American tabloids in the yellow journalism era, I had to learn about the American-Spanish war over Cuba, which I'd never heard about before.
And so, yeah, it was, you know, it took me quite a while.
And I was helped in a way by the pandemic, which gave me some freedom to work from home over a couple of years.
And that gave me some of the time to do it.
And I was fortunate to have some research leave from my university.
Well, this is not terribly easy.
These are very generalized questions.
labels, as it were.
And the distinctions were much more apparent when what you might call tabloid or popular journalism really began back in the sort of, as we understand it today,
although its origins go back a long way before that, but in the, in what you might call the sort of late Victorian era.
And you have to remember in those days you had, uh, you know, the literature is certainly in the, in the United Kingdom.
Um,
There was low levels of literacy.
There was a sort of upper class, money class of people that had leisure and time, obviously before the era of television or even the internet.
They had the leisure and the time to read newspapers that had long dispatches in them, literary pieces, foreign dispatches, long reports on politics and courts and diplomatic issues and so forth.
And the Telegraph and the Times in that era dominated that kind of journalism.
There were attempts to produce what you might call informational news sheets for the new working classes, which were demanding literacy and so forth.
And then a more popular newspaper,
uh, idea arose through what we, we would used to call in, again, in the UK, the Victorian penny dreadfuls, which were, um, newspapers such as the illustrated police news, which had kind of rather gory and sleazy and explicit accounts of crimes and things like that.
Um, and there were quite a lot of those circular dating in the kind of middle Victorian era.
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