Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessarily small. The penny press prints four pages a day, the tabloids eight; Fleet Street's 15 dailies can be tucked under the arm more easily than a midweek copy of the hefty New York Times. Rather than drop pages, some editors, like Robert Barrington-Ward of the London Times, have chosen to save newsprint by dropping readers...
...years of grubby austerity have filled Fleet Street with a certain frustration-a neurosis Britain's hardy provincial papers seem to have escaped. "How can we train reporters," asked a London news editor, "when even a good man can go for weeks without getting a line into print? It's just a dry run, night after night." Some journalists have been overtaken by a creeping lethargy: it is hard to hustle for scoops when editions will sell out without them. "I keep feeling guilty," said a circulation manager. "Instead of talking people into buying more papers...
...Mail) and C. V. R. Thompson (in the Express). Without such serious correspondents as Sir Willmott Lewis of the Times and Alistair Cooke, the Manchester Guardian's man at U.N., and the shrewd jotters of the "American Survey" in Geoffrey Crowther's Economist, an American in London would feel hopelessly cut off from home...
...pundits who clutter up the U.S. press. Instead, they often make their points through cartoonists who are real caricaturists: alongside the artful sharpshooting of David Low, Strube, Vicky, Illingworth and even the Daily Worker's "Gabriel," much U.S. political cartooning seems as subtle as a paleolithic sledge hammer. London's newspapers and weekly journals alike print comment and criticism more literate and provocative than in most of the U.S. press. And the Sundays, led by the urbane, open-minded Observer and Lord Kernsley's Sunday Times, run no funnies but offer an influential, once-a-week type...
Whispers from Below. A good many proprietors of London's predominantly Tory press have felt that the Socialist government is gunning for them, taking away newsprint so they'll have less space to criticize Labor. The proprietors have also heard the whisper of mutiny from below. It was the National Union of Journalists that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman...