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“The new spirit in the Press, which aims, not at influencing statesmen by giving them an instructed and enlightened public opinion, but at making them subservient to a power which will exalt them or hound them out of office, according to whether they will or will not accept its dictates and its terms.”“The insolent pretensions of newspaper owners to reduce Downing Street to the position of an annexe of Fleet Street.”—Certain People of Importance, byA. G. Gardiner.The freedom of the Press is the freedom of public opinion, that’s the beginning and the end of it. Can you pretend that public opinion is free, when more than half the leading journals are the voice of one man? There is a danger to the freedom of the Press, Janion; and that danger is you. You are simply a trust crushing out or buying up all opposition, till you control the market—till you can sit in your office and say, “What I think to-day, England will think to-morrow.”—The Earth, byJ. B. Fagan.
“The new spirit in the Press, which aims, not at influencing statesmen by giving them an instructed and enlightened public opinion, but at making them subservient to a power which will exalt them or hound them out of office, according to whether they will or will not accept its dictates and its terms.”
“The insolent pretensions of newspaper owners to reduce Downing Street to the position of an annexe of Fleet Street.”
—Certain People of Importance, byA. G. Gardiner.
The freedom of the Press is the freedom of public opinion, that’s the beginning and the end of it. Can you pretend that public opinion is free, when more than half the leading journals are the voice of one man? There is a danger to the freedom of the Press, Janion; and that danger is you. You are simply a trust crushing out or buying up all opposition, till you control the market—till you can sit in your office and say, “What I think to-day, England will think to-morrow.”
—The Earth, byJ. B. Fagan.