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Old 9th Jun 2012, 08:34
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Ron Manager
 
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Ah the Mail, referred to by the eminent historian R G Collingwood (1889-1943) as "the first English paper for which the word 'news' lost its old meaning of facts which the reader ought to know...and acquired the new meaning of facts,or fictions, which it might amuse him to read". It doesn't seem to have improved since his day.
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