Newspapers of the Consensus
Neal Ascherson, 21 February 1985
The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain. Vol. II: The 20th Century
by Stephen Koss.
Hamish Hamilton, 718 pp., £25, March 1984,0 241 11181 1 Show More
by Stephen Koss.
Hamish Hamilton, 718 pp., £25, March 1984,
Lies, Damned Lies and Some Exclusives
by Henry Porter.
Chatto, 211 pp., £9.95, October 1984,0 7011 2841 0 Show More
by Henry Porter.
Chatto, 211 pp., £9.95, October 1984,
Garvin of the ‘Observer’
by David Ayerst.
Croom Helm, 314 pp., £25, January 1985,0 7099 0560 2 Show More
by David Ayerst.
Croom Helm, 314 pp., £25, January 1985,
The Beaverbrook I Knew
edited by Logan Gourlay.
Quartet, 272 pp., £11.95, September 1984,0 7043 2331 1 Show More
edited by Logan Gourlay.
Quartet, 272 pp., £11.95, September 1984,
“... whips were expected to acquire shareholdings in newspapers. Lloyd George’s Liberals invested in Reynolds’ News; other Liberals funded the Westminster Gazette; the Conservative Party helped to pay for the Manchester Courier and the Daily Express. The Tory whips offered the Observer £1000 in 1910 to produce a special edition they could hawk around the ... ”