Trust in God But Not in Luce
Ray Boston, Former Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies, University College, Cardiff
When power to the people became a political slogan for the first time in Victorian London, it did not mean more power to the Tories1. It did not mean more power to the Liberals either, even though it issued from the desk of a once-dutiful Liberal newspaper editor. It simply meant government by journalism. It was first used in 1886 by William Thomas Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette from 1883 to...