In 1797, the Prime Minister of Great Britain announced a substantial increase in the stamp duty on newspapers. This increase, and indeed the tax itself, has been variously represented as an attack on press freedom and an act of suppression of the working classes. This paper reconsiders these representations by reference to primary sources and concludes that the increases in stamp duty were part of a revenue raising exercise in which taxes on a number of luxury items were increased, including newspapers which were not at the time viewed at being necessities.
Surely the time is ripe for a national discussion about how the news industry should be transitioning in view of falling ad revenues and the growing relevance of so-called new media. Because new media feed off old media, once newspapers are gone, their offerings - from which the Internet feeds - will also be gone.
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