The popular Press had made the newspaper a byword for falsehood.

Even its supporters, while reading it because it pandered to their passions, tickled their vices, and flattered their ignorance, despised and disbelieved it.

Here and there, an honest journal advocated a reform, pleaded for the sweeping away of an injustice.

The public shrugged its shoulders.

Another newspaper stunt! A bid for popularity, for notoriety: with its consequent financial kudos.
She still continued to write for Greyson, but felt she was labouring for the doomed.