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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 882, col. 1936.
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Speech in the House of Commons, 5 December, 1974.

 

Harold Wilson

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