Now I stopped reading the Guardian in the mid ‘80s, switched
to the Independent and near the end of the last century started reading the Telegraph, not I hasten
to add out of a profound ideological change but more because it was the best
way of knowing how the “other side thought”.
And during a year when the sections of the press worked hard to discredit journalism and when reporting elections has often been reduced to personalities, I came across this old fashioned restatement of what some newspapers set out to do.
It comes from 1963, when a tired Tory Government was looking decidedly terminal and when were still at the height of the Cold War.
Picture; from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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