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1984 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Steyn Commission and Three Concepts of the Press

Authors : William A. Hachten, C. Anthony Giffard, Harva Hachten

Published in: The Press and Apartheid

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Underlying the continuing controversy over the Press Council has been one persistent policy of the Nationalists: to bend the English press to its will, to find a way to make it conform to the concerns, and even the world view, of the ruling Afrikaners. Nationalist prime ministers from Malan to Vorster have sought to “discipline” the pesky opposition newspapers into being “responsible.”

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Title
The Steyn Commission and Three Concepts of the Press
Authors
William A. Hachten
C. Anthony Giffard
Harva Hachten
Copyright Year
1984
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book
The Press and Apartheid

Print ISBN: 978-1-349-07687-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-07685-7

Copyright Year: 1984

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07685-7_4