Paper Politics
Martin Walker on a magisterial treatment of the developments in British political journalism
The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain, by Stephen Koss
455 pp. (Hamish Hamilton, 1981)
If the idea of 'public opinion' did not exist, historians would have to invent it. Indeed, they often do, when what they really mean is that they have read the leaders and correspondence columns of The Times and perhaps the Daily News and Pall Mall Gazette for the relevant period. Thanks to Professor Koss, such a short cut will no longer be so easy.
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