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ABSTRACT 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
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Press. _Nature_ 164, 247–249 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164247a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 13 August 1949 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164247a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you
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