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Sir: Mr Ovenden (Letters, 5 January) is wrong. These social groups (AB, Cl. C2, DE) are defined by occupation not money. 'C2s' (the skilled manual workers) can, and often do. earn more than 'Cis' ('supervisors, clerks and junior managers, adminis- trators and professional people').
But by what tortured reasoning Mr Ovenden re- lates this to the political influence of newspapers, I simply do not know.
R. F. Fernsby
Marketing Manager, Daily Express, London Cls, included in Mr Fernsby's 'middle class' but not Mr Overtden's, are defined by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising National Readership Survey as: 'Social status: lower middle class. Occupation: supervising or clerical and junior man- agerial, administrative or professional. Income: under £1,000 per annum.'—Editor, SPECTATOR.
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