"I do not think we have a free press in Britain today. There is not a single newspaper that I can buy, not one in Britain that reflects my political position. And The Times, dare I say to you, is really disreputable. It does not print truthfully and faithfully what happens ... it is a political propaganda instrument like The Sun, but it is printed in rather better print and rather shrewder language."
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Tony Benn, Press conference in Athens (12 March 1982), quoted in The Times (13 March 1982), p. 5
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The Times is a daily morning newspaper published in London. It was founded in 1785 as the Daily Universal Register and took its present title at the beginning of 1788. It has often been regarded as the newspaper taken by the British establishment. It was nicknamed "The Thunderer" for its strident editorialising.
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