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MEDIA silence on the 50,000 who marched against government-imposed austerity at the weekend tells us all we need to know about Britain’s “free” press.
Only one weekend newspaper — the Morning Star — led on the People’s Assembly demo. The Guardian consented to run a report on the march online, though it was not mentioned at all in the group’s Sunday title the Observer.
Other papers ignored it completely — as, initially, did the BBC, before a flood of complaints forced it to post a grudging acknowledgement on its Facebook page.
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
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As advertising drains away, newsrooms shrink and local papers disappear, MIKE WAYNE argues that the market model for news is broken – and that public-interest alternatives, rooted in democratic accountability, are more necessary than ever
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE