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imperative of dominant media corporations create a bias. Herman and Chomsky argue that in the early nineteenth century, a radical British press emerged that addressed the concerns of workers. Libel law and stamp duties were used to attempt to protect the elites holding political power, but were ineffective. A big increase in the practical cost of running a newspaper with a "substantial outrech", including machinery, became a much stronger constraint against creating new newspapers.

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