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NEWSPAPERS.
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its publication is a privilege of the Swedish Academy. This paper is
to a certain degree an organ of the Government, and contains, before
others, all official announcements.
For the right to publish periodical publications, it was necessary
in ancient times to procure a privilege granted by the Government, and
they were besides subjected to censorship, as well as all other printed
publications. During the so-called »Era of Liberty» (1718/1772, see
p. 86), the liberty of the press was, however, introduced, and it is
worthy of notice that Sweden was the first country where regulations
in this direction were given the character of a constitutional law (1766).
Among the four constitutional laws now in force in Sweden, there is
also a law of 1812 concerning the liberty of the press, which contains
detailed instructions as to the right of issuing printed publications, the
responsibility therefore, and the legal mode of procedure in cases of
press-prosecution; in these cases a jury is employed — a legal trait
which in other cases is foreign to Sweden.
Every person who has not been punished for infamous crime or
declared unworthy to plead another’s cause before court has a right to
issue periodical publications, after having made application to the Minister
of Justice. Publishers of periodicals are, with respect to responsibility,
considered as authors.
A review of the development of the periodical literature in Sweden, as weL
as of the number and manner of publication, at different times, of the political,
advertisement, and newspapers proper, is given in the Table on the following
page (Table 53).
The papers most known in Sweden are at present — besides the aforesaid
so to speak semi-official Post- och Inrikes Tidningar — Stockholms Dagblad
(moderate), Aftonbladet, Dagen, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholms-Tidningen, Svenska
Dagbladet, and Svenska Morgonbladet (all liberal), Nya Dagligt Allehanda, Vårt
Land, and Stockholms-Bladet (all conservative), Socialdemokraten (socialistic), —
all published in Stockholm.
Among the newspapers published outside of Stockholm, we might mention:
Göteborgs Händels- och Sjöfartstidning, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Skånska Dagbladet,
and Malmö-Tidningen (the latter three in Malmö), Nerikes Allehanda (in Örebro),
Östergötlands Dagblad (in Norrköping), Sundsvalls Tidning — all of liberal
political colour; Norrköpings Tidningar, Östgöta Correspondenten (in Linköping),
Morgonposten (in Gothenburg), Göteborgs Aftonblad, Helsingborgs-Posten,
Gefle-Posten, Smålandsposten (in Vexjö), Sundsvalls-Posten — all conservative.
Out of 350 political newspapers existing in 1900, 59 were published in
Stockholm, and of the 58 daily (or still more frequently) issued papers, 14
were published in the capital. Of låte years, the provincial press has been
considerably developed. In 1850 there was only one daily paper outside of
Stockholm, but in 1900 there were 44.
The price of subscription on Swedish papers has always been quite low,
and has, of låte, through competition, been still more reduced. The principal
newspapers appearing daily or more often cost at the most 18 kronor a year, and
dailies have been issued at the very low cost of 3 kronor. Also the
advertizing-rates are very low, or from 6 to 90 öre per line. (A krona à 100 öre = l’io
shilling or 0*2 68 dollar).
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