The historical inevitability of the development of the modern newspaper industry in the West

Answer] :(1) Historical background: Modern leather newspapers were produced in the context of the transition from European feudal society to modern society.

In the 17th century, the new class replaced the feudal ruling class on the stage of history. With the intensification of social and political struggles, the demand for information in society has increased. The original hand-copied tabloids were gradually changed to printed publications, and irregular news books were gradually regularized.

The development of the postal service has made the mail stable and delivered once a week, which provides the possibility for the generation of regular weekly reports.

2) Logo: The advent of the weekly newspaper marked the birth of the modern newspaper.

3) Situation: The first periodicals were produced in Germany. In 1609, two kinds of weekly newspapers appeared in Germany:

Circulars – Reports or News" and Reports. The first ** was also born in Germany, and in 1650, Leipzig's "New Arrival News" is considered the world's first**.

The development of the bourgeois press is closely linked to the development of the bourgeois revolution. Although the national conditions of various countries are different and the course of the revolution is also very different, the development of the newspaper industry in various countries has a common law:

1. Before the bourgeois revolution, the bourgeois press was suppressed by the feudal rulers, who suppressed the dissident ideas and information through the publication permission system, the content censorship system, and the establishment of the "star court" in Britain. On the other hand, the feudal rulers published official newspapers and fostered royal newspapers to serve their own political needs. As an anti-feudal bourgeois press, it received all kinds of elegance and developed slowly.

In the bourgeois press, debates were conducted on major issues such as revolution, reform, conservatism, or the maintenance of feudal rule, proceeding from the interests of their respective classes.

2. In the course of the bourgeois revolution, bourgeois ideologists first raised the banner of freedom of the press, propagated democratic ideas, and expounded the importance of freedom of the press.

Answer]: The development of the industrial revolution has promoted the application of electric power, the development of high and new technology, since the 50s of the twentieth century, the printing technology has been continuously using electronic technology, laser technology, information science and polymer chemistry and other emerging science and technology to achieve the results, and has entered the stage of modernization development. So people naturally used printing to print books, newspapers, and the like.

Therefore, the industrial revolution also indirectly promoted the development of the newspaper industry.