THE FAKE NEWS OR BIASED JOURNALISTS IS AN OLD THING.

    

THE FAKE NEWS OR BIASED JOURNALISTS IS AN OLD THING.

William Cobbett on the dangers posed by the “Paper Aristocracy” (1804)

From: Selections from Cobbett's Political Works, vol. 1 (William Cobbett)

By: William Cobbett

Theme: Class

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The English radical William Cobbett (1763-1835) objected to the funding of the war against Napoleon by issuing debt and suspending gold payments. He called the financial elite who benefited from the huge increase in government debt as the “Paper Aristocracy”:

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