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Focuses on the plan of a group of journalists and managers in Great Britain to start a daily newspaper called "The World". Amount of money needed to start the publication; Editorial staff for the paper; Target market for the daily.

Reports on a libel suit between London brokerage firm, Collins Stewart Tullett, and the British newspaper, "The Financial Times." Publishing conglomerate Pearson who is being sued for publicizing accusations by a former brokerage employee; Accusations which involved corrupt practices; Differences between British and United States libel law; Newspaper which is currently facing financial difficulty.

The good lady Opinion sits perched in a tree, wearing the weighty towers of the town as her hat, which blinds her eyes. On one of her hands a chameleon sits, doubtless changing its spots to accommodate the surroundings. Held in her other hand is a wand used to shake the tree's branches, from which leaves fall: leaves of books and papers, which offer not knowledge but libel and foolishness, which ''in everie streete, on everie stall you find.'' Such is the cynical vision of the news business put forward by Henry Peacham in 1641 London, as journalism, in its earliest forms, was becoming a major force during some of the most tumultuous decades in England's history: no wisdom, he finds, just much posturing and gossip. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]