King of the castle; British media history.('Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King, and the Glory Days of Fleet Street')(Book Review)

The Economist (US) | May 31, 2003 | Copyright

THERE are few more vivid footnotes in the past 50 years of British politics than the meeting between Lord Mountbatten of Burma and Cecil King, then chairman of IPC, owners of the Daily Mirror. It is the doleful climax of this absorbing biography of King and Hugh Cudlipp, the exuberant and innovative tabloid editor who described himself as "the captain of [King's] Praetorian Guard." At the meeting on May 8th 1968, King insisted that an impending economic crisis would lead to the disintegration of the government, bloodshed in the streets and the involvement of the armed forces. ...

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