Murder-and-insult coverage rapidly made the Herald a leading penny paper

Evidence

Bennett’s blend of murder and highfalutin beatdown was evidently worth a penny to many, and in less than a year, The Herald claimed a circulation of seven thousand, drawing roughly even with the Sun. The race was on to see which paper—and which kind of appeal—would harvest the most attention in New York. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 48

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘race to harvest attention’ framing directly feeds the reader’s stated purpose on the history of attention industries.