In the course of the war, he campaigned against conscription and DORA (Edwards 1993: 564), leading to his being accused by The Times of a ‘distressingly pacifist’ policy (op. cit. 567).By the summer of 1916 Hirst for the trustees ‘became too much’ and was sacked, to be immediately replaced by HW HW came to the Economist direct from the post of Director of Financial Inquiries at the Treasury, which had followed a series of appointments as City Editor of the Times and then of the Morning Post and with the merchant banker Seligman. He was greeted by The (IR) (1.7.16 6-7) as of the coolest and Investor’s Review ‘one shrewdest practical men of affairs of the to Edwards (1993: 577) he day.’ According introduced a to the ‘much more orthodox…attitude War’. The remainder of this paper will give an overview of the coverage of Economist’s wartime finance in Britain, in the context of the press nationally in Germany on the same themes. The issues we consider are the treatment of wartime loan finance, of taxation and of national policy, and the ways in which the Economist did and did not resemble the press more generally. In GB we will look in particular at the Economist in comparison with the IR and its treatment of the same issues. From the beginning of the war, the IR gave detailed and energetic accounts of its impact on the City and on finance. The IR was founded in 1892 by AJ Wilson, a financial journalist of long standing- he had experience going back to the 1870s of working in the financial press. A contemporary described Wilson as ‘the knight without City editors (Kynaston 2012: 178). He was willing to fear or reproach’ among take on and campaign against scandals see e.g. his attacks on Rhodes and the –
In the course of the war, he campaigned against conscription and DORA (Edwards 1993: 564), leading to his being accused by The Times of a ‘distressingly pacifist’ policy (op. cit. 567).By the summer of 1916 Hirst ‘became too much’ for the trustees and was sacked, to be immediately replaced by HW HW came to the Economist direct from the post of Director of Financial Inquiries at the Treasury, which had followed a series of appointments as City Editor of the Times and then of the Morning Post and with the merchant banker Seligman. He was greeted by The Investor’s Review (IR) (1.7.16 6-7) as ‘one of the coolest and shrewdest practical men of affairs of the day.’ According to Edwards (1993: 577) he introduced a ‘much more orthodox…attitude to the War’. The remainder of this paper will give an overview of the Economist’s coverage of wartime finance in Britain, in the context of the press nationally in Germany on the same themes. The issues we consider are the treatment of wartime loan finance, of taxation and of national policy, and the ways in which the Economist did and did not resemble the press more generally. In GB we will look in particular at the Economist in comparison with the IR and its treatment of the same issues. From the beginning of the war, the IR gave detailed and energetic accounts of its impact on the City and on finance. The IR was founded in 1892 by AJ Wilson, a financial journalist of long standing- he had experience going back to the 1870s of working in the financial press. A contemporary described Wilson as ‘the knight without fear or reproach’ among City editors (Kynaston 2012: 178). He was willing to take on and campaign against scandals – see e.g. his attacks on Rhodes and the