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Il a abouti à une enquête publique et à un tel tollé populaire que les politiciens se sentaient obligés d'agir, ou tout au moins semblaient agir, contre les barons de la presse que beaucoup d'entre eux, jusque-là, avaient redouté et assidûment courtisé.
It led to a public inquiry and to such a popular outcry that politicians felt obliged to act--or at least to appear to act--against press barons whom many of them, until then, had greatly feared and assiduously courted.
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