Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement.
“the main reason why reformism failed was that the press intimidated the political class”
The 1996 broadcasting act partly reversed previous policy by allowing most news-paper groups (with less then 20 percent of the national market) to expand into terrestrial television by relaxing the rules about cross-ownership of local press and radio.
The press commissions had slightly more success in seeking to keep the press and broadcasting industries separate
The press is not representative, because it is owned and controlled by the powerful.
News papers do not ‘represent’ their readers’ views in a literals sense, because readers buy papers partly to be entertained: thus survey research shows that only a large press groups to obtain the permission of secretary of state before they where allowed to purchase a newspaper.