Who controls the mainstream media? Baldwin famously declared that moguls like Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook did, exercising power without responsibility, ‘the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages’. ‘There goes the harlot vote,’ lamented one Tory grandee.
The media plays a significant role in any constitutional state, with Burke elevating those who sit in the Reporters Gallery as a Fourth Estate even more important than the other three.
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