Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply The Mirror. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the Sunday Mirror.
[....] During the Second World War the Mirror positioned itself as the paper of the ordinary soldier and civilian, and was critical of the political leadership and the established parties. At one stage, the paper was threatened with closure following the publication of a Philip Zec cartoon (captioned by William Connor), which was misinterpreted by Winston Churchill and Herbert Morrison. In the 1945 general election the paper strongly supported the Labour Party in its eventual landslide victory. In doing so, the paper supported Herbert Morrison, who co-ordinated Labour's campaign, and recruited his former antagonist Philip Zec to reproduce, on the front page, a popular VE Day cartoon on the morning of the election, suggesting that Labour were the only party who could maintain peace in post-war Britain. By the late 1940s, it was selling 4.5 million copies a day, outstripping the Express; for some 30 years afterwards, it dominated the British daily newspaper market, selling more than 5 million copies a day at its peak in the mid-1960s.
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== Peel Interview ==
Peel said on at least one occasion that he read the Daily Mirror, because it supported the Labour Party and was, supposedly, a "socialist newspaper". In Margrave Of The Marshes, a quote from Peel's diaries at the time of the 1971 Oz trial mentions that JP was interviewed by "a Man from the Mirror" for one and a half hours; "believe he was trying to be fair - re: Oz trial and my testimony" (p.236). Later in the book, Sheila Ravenscroft described how reading the Daily Mirror was part of Peel's routine when attending Liverpool FC home games (p.331).
Soon after his VD confession in 1969, he was interviewed by the paper's agony aunt, Marjorie Proops.
==See Also==
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==Links==
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