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Stephen Koss questions whether the press has ever truly mirrored public opinion
'Where does the historian look to find public opinion? More easily evoked as a concept than grasped as a tangibility, it seems to lurk everywhere, yet defies characterisation and thwarts analysis. Different scholars – according to their predispositions and methodologies – would define it differently, even with reference to the same historical periods. Obviously too important to disregard, it is simultaneously too varied and too volatile to measure with any degree of precision.
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