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Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgements Section - ii: Preface Unit - 1: The Snobs and the Soaks Chapter - 1: Who are Journalists? Chapter - 2: Early Journalists Chapter - 3: How Journalists First Became Powerful Chapter - 4: The Rise of the Political Hack Chapter - 5: The Overreachers Chapter - 6: Literary Journalism Chapter - 7: Getting In: Local Papers and the Rise of the Modern Reporter Chapter - 8: When Fleet Street was Fleet Street Chapter - 9: Intellectuals Chapter - 10: Journalism's Private Class System Chapter - 11: Mazer, Our Sala Unit - 2: What Is News? Chapter - 12: Hard News and Weak News Chapter - 13: The Mystery of News Chapter - 14: Early News Stories Chapter - 15: Sensational, and Dull, Victorian News Chapter - 16: The Old News Journalism Chapter - 17: From Austerity to Shopping: News and the Modern World Chapter - 18: Sex Stories: A Very Short History Chapter - 19: Not Shagging but Shopping - New News Values? Chapter - 20: News Now: Has it Changed? Unit - 3: The Dirty Art of Political Journalism Chapter - 21: Coming Home Chapter - 22: The Daily Life of the Gallery Slaves Chapter - 23: The Rise and Fall of the Straight Reporter Chapter - 24: Bent and Twisted Journalism? Chapter - 25: What is a Political Story? Chapter - 26: An Incredibly Short History of the Lobby Chapter - 27: What Political Journalists Do Chapter - 28: Political Journalism Now: Are We Too Powerful? Unit - 4: Lord Copper and His Children Chapter - 29: Becoming an Editor Chapter - 30: How Real Editors Edit Chapter - 31: Enter Lord Copper, With a Heavy Tread Chapter - 32: The First Mystery of the Proprietors Chapter - 33: How to Read a Newspaper Unit - 5: Into The Crowded Air Chapter - 34: If the Face Fits . . . Chapter - 35: The Clutter of Magic: How Broadcasters Do It Chapter - 36: Whales and Elephants Chapter - 37: From Stars to Soup: the ITN Revolution Chapter - 38: 633 Squadron: Current Affairs and the Rise of the Reporter Chapter - 39: The Mix Chapter - 40: Interlude: from Home Service to Light Programme? Chapter - 41: The Politics of Television Unit - 6: Two Aristrocracies Chapter - 42: One: Foreign Correspondents, and the Sin of Glamour Chapter - 43: From Adventurers to Missionaries Chapter - 44: The Natives Back Home: Selfish and Dim? Chapter - 45: Good News Shock Chapter - 46: Two: Columnists, from Pundits to Panderers Chapter - 47: The Pundits Chapter - 48: How to be a Columnist Section - iii: Epilogue Section - iv: Notes Index - v: Index