INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Major Astor's article is both welcome and refreshing. Is it quite certain, however, that the political influence of the daily Press is as direct and powerful as he suggests ? A careful survey of electoral results does not appear to confirm the assumption. There may be—there certainly have been— occasions when great journals with their ears to the ground are enabled to give expression and emphasis to popular misgivings and emotions ; but a geographical and territorial analysis of the position does not appear to indicate a close or even an approximate correspondence between the dominant political bias of the daily Press and the political allegiance of
the people.—! am, Sir, Lie., ARTHUR SRERWELL. Reform Club, London, S.W.
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