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THE report of the Royal Commission on the Press, 1947-49*, set up as the outcome of a division in the House of Commons on October 29, 1946, contains little that was not forecast in the preceding that division. The wider charges against the British Press are plainly refuted. “There is nothing approaching monopoly in the Press as a whole or, with the single exception of the London financial daily, in any class of newspaper ; nor is there in those classes of periodical which the Commission examined."Likewise, the Commission concludes that the present degree of concentration of ownership in the newspaper Press as a whole or in any important class of it is not so great as to prejudice the free expression of opinion or the accurate presentation of news, or to be contrary to the best interests of the public.
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Functions of the Press. Nature 164, 247–249 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164247a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164247a0