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The Free Press

By Hilaire Belloc

2020-01-30 23:10:27

Hilaire Belloc, a great English essayist of the 20th century, takes an uncompromising look at the forces working against the freedom of the press. Targeting financial and political influences, along with the influence of advertising, Belloc exposes t ... Read more
Hilaire Belloc, a great English essayist of the 20th century, takes an uncompromising look at the forces working against the freedom of the press. Targeting financial and political influences, along with the influence of advertising, Belloc exposes the powers and motives responsible for the suppression of news and the manufacturing of opinion. Neither pie-in-the-sky idealism nor an irrational conspiracy theory, The Free Press is a rationally argued essay explaining the origins of those influences and factors that make the press less than what it should be honest: fair, and independent. Less

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File size86.691 KB
Print pages60
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2009-10-03
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0368878008
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Hilaire Belloc
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Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalized British subject in 1902. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sa...

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