"After all, our readers are human beings..."
Alan Whicker looks at Two Sides of Fleet Street

As a nation, we have an enormous appetite for newsprint: we read more, per head, than any country in the world. Each day newspapers exert their influences on our minds; the personalities of a handful of proprietors and editors help shape our opinions and attitudes.
Of our nine national dailies perhaps the two most influential are at opposite ends of the scale: Cecil King's Daily Mirror, read by more than a quarter of the population... Lord Thomson's Times, read by everyone who 'matters'... Yet in today's television-educated age, popular and quality papers draw closer together.
What do they say about their role, their power, their influence - the men on the inside who decide what you read? What are they like, what do they think - the men behind the headlines?