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The Napoleon of Fleet Street

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Lord Northclift, if He Could Be Brought Back to Life, He'd Be Quite Impressed With the Daily Mail

Lord Northclift died almost exactly a hundred years ago. How do you think he, if he could be miraculously brought back to life, d would view the press a hundred years on? I think he'd be quite impressed with them. With a lot of it. The daily mail is still a huge, i mean, global its, i think, the second biggest on line newspaper in the world,. after the people's dailyfe beging. And so he'd be impressed with that. He would love the fact that rupert murdock owns and runs the times newspaper.Rupert murdock's father was a protege of northcliff. In fact, he was so much

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