Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
The Sun News-Pictorial known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left leaning approach from 1949, but which was closed in 1957. The other competitor over the life of the newspaper was the more liberal-minded "The Age", a daily newspaper that had been published in Melbourne since 1854. David Syme became sole proprietor of the paper in 1891, and built it up into Victoria's leading newspaper. In circulation, it soon overtook its rivals "The Herald" and "The Argus", and by 1890 it was selling 100,000 copies a day, making it one of the world's most successful newspapers. However,