For example, in an article entitled “Miss Hobhouse’s Meetings”, Hobhouse writes “On page 10 of The Times of to-day, column 2, there is a paragraph headed ‘Pro-Boer Movement’ … May I point out to you that the meeting in question was not a pro-Boer meeting nor in any sense a political gathering.” This quote shows that Hobhouse did not agree with what The Times was writing in regards to the meetings she was hosting and therefore, she wrote to the editor in order to correct incorrect …show more content…
Although The Times published Hobhouse’s articles in the interest of balance, they accused her of naivety, political bias and claimed that she applied standards of a civilized society where they were not appropriate. It becomes understandable now as to why Hobhouse’s letters to the editor, as shown in previous examples, were correcting The Times and came across with an angry