"The exclusion of the public from the parliamentary deliberations could no longer in any event be maintained at a time in which ‘Memory’ Woodfall was able to make the Morning Chronicle into the leading London daily paper because he could reproduce verbatim sixteen columns of parliamentary speeches without taking notes in the gallery of the House of Commons, which was prohibited."
Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991), 61-62.
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