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POLITICAL REPORTING IN BRITAIN

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by DAVID BUTLER
Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
Does the British press report political affairs fully and frankly enough? What constitutional and social barriers frustrate candid analysis of events in Westminster and Whitehall ? Are press failings a fault of lobby correspondents, of newspaper proprietors, or of society in general David Butler tackles these questions in this comparison of political reporting here and in the United States.

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