What if the mass-circulation newspaper had gone differently?

Cheap newsprint, the linotype and advertising create the penny press and a national daily audience.

If it had gone differently: News stays expensive and factional; there is no cheap daily press to make or manufacture a mass public opinion.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on the mass-circulation newspaper. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1914The First World War. Without it, The old European empires are never shattered; the century's borders, grievances and revolutions all run another way.