Newspaper Power

The first authoritative account of the British national press since the Rupert Murdoch-triggered `Death of Fleet Street' in 1986. Drawing on interviews with 200 senior newspaper people, Jeremy Tunstall argues that the major newspapers are now fatter and more aggressively competitive, while editors and journalist stars are more prominent. In an era of video entertainment, politicians and princesses as well as business moguls may love television, but it is the newspapers that they fear.