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quite unpolitical, and this is still the case with the last-named
paper, which can boast of a larger circulation than any other
Norwegian paper. «Aftenposten», on the other hand, from the
end of the sixties, began to take part in political discussion, and
gradually worked itself up to a prominent position among the
organs of Conservatism. At the same time, it paid special
attention to the news column, and distinguished itself by its rapid
reporting. Since 1879, its editor has been A. Schibsted, who has
succeeded in attaching a number of names of note to his paper,
among them that of the already-mentioned F. Bætzmann.
The growing democratic movement and «Morgenbladet’s»
conversion into the organ of the government, was the means of calling
forth at the conclusion of the sixties, two pronounced opposition
papers, the still-existing Verdens Gang (1868) and Dagbladet (1869).
The first-named paper began as the advocate of a narrow economy
in the administration, but soon went over to take the side of the
programme of the parliamentarian opposition, and was even
conducted for a time by the leader of the Opposition himself, Johan
Sverdrup. Since 1878, its editor has been O. Thommessen, whose
caustic pen, especially in times of political agitation, has an
exceptional power of hitting his opponents through epigrammatically
formed paragraphs. His paper has been the rendezvous of a
number of prominent names in literature and art. Bjørnstjerne
Bjørnson especially, has sent the greater part of his journalistic
productions to this paper. «Verdens Gang» was before any
of its competitors in procuring, by means of its own
correspondents, copious telegraphic dispatches from abroad; and it was the
first Norwegian daily paper to add illustrations, often by our best
artists, to the accounts of passing events. The paper has been
on the whole the spokesman for the policy of the Liberal party,
which, in the years of sharp contest about 1880, it defended with
great talent and boldness. It has, however, always maintained
an independent attitude, and, especially of late, has attacked the
leaders of its party.
Dagbladet began to be published in 1869, under the
editorship of the well-known politician, H. E. Berner, who, during the
ten years in which he occupied the post of editor, succeeded in
overcoming the manifold difficulties that a liberal opposition paper
had to fight with in those days, in the capital. Among the most
distinguished contributors may be named the authors, Jonas Lie
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