Newspaper Ownership And Editorial Independence A Comparative Analysis Of Tide And Guardian Newspaper

CHAPTER ONE 1.0     INTRODUCTION Editorial  freedom  or  independence  is  the  concept  that editors-in-chief should have full authority over the editorial content  of  their  journal.  Like individual and  national freedom or independence, it is a rhetorical concept whose realisation flows from internal achievement as much as it  depends  on  external  validation.  From  cover  to  cover, editors have the right “to decide what is published, what is not published, when items are published, and what (if any) amendments are made prior to publication,” but they are constrained to “work within so…