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The Great British press have been giving us and making up news for years. The printing press drove literacy. Literacy and the printing press drove awareness and secularism and similarly drove political revolution particularly in America in 1776 and in France in 1789. Certainly the comparatively easy exchange of information delivered by the printing press was a key step in reducing the authority of the church and the state and monarchical rule. It could be said that the press drove the development of the national or popular state and ultimately became the state in that it was more influential than the politicians who otherwise represented the populace. With very few exceptions modern politicians have been dominated by their relations with the press. But every dog has its day and the press seems to have had its moment. Courtesy of the internet it`s over for the clergy of the fourth estate.