Spin about Spin: The Murdoch Press on the Dr. Kelly affair

"Robin Smith" wrote in message
om...
Predictably, the Murdoch Press has turned on the BBC rather than the
government over the Dr. Kelly affair. News

"BBC battles to save its reputation," Times.
"You Rat", ran the Sun

It is hard to divorce this sort of coverage from the fact that
Murdoch's holding company, owners of the Times, The Sun and The News
of the World, owns 40 per cent of British Sky Broadcasting, the main
rival of the BBC.

An interesting analysis and more evidence of this bias is made by
former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil at

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/o...urce=Evening%2
0Standard

So much for an unbiased press.

Unbiased press?! Is there anyone in this country that actually believes that
the great British press is anything other than politically motivated?! It's
a very well known fact that newspapers have political allegiances - the
Daily Mail, for example, is the Tory Daily!

Robin Smith wrote:

Predictably, the Murdoch Press has turned on the BBC rather than the
government over the Dr. Kelly affair.

They also are currently the main (only?) group to systematically
support Blair, apparently regardless of what he does.

And we wonder why the path is smoothed for Murdoch to buy C5?

And we wonder why the government and its quangos keep saying "not our
job" when pressed about the FTV card mess?

And we wonder why Blair gets invited on such nice holidays?

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Unbiased press?! Is there anyone in this country that actually =
believes that
the great British press is anything other than politically motivated?! =
It's
a very well known fact that newspapers have political allegiances - =
the
Daily Mail, for example, is the Tory Daily!
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Incorrect - the Daily Mail is not a newspaper. It is, however, a bunch =
of badly written fictional essays by schoolchildren. They get paid =
=A33.10 an hour. It's the truth! How else can you explain the absolute =
drivel that emanates from it?

Andy


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The Daily Mail doesn't consistently support any poitical party- it blames all
the woes of the British people on whatever party in in government...


Typical generic Daily Mail headlines...

"Why everything is disgraceful and should be banned"

"This looks like a good bandwagon- let's jump on it"

You can imagine when they were first conceiving the publication..

"Why don't we publish a newspaper where everything's the government's fault?"

"What if it doesn't sell?"

"Then....we blame the government!"


Adam (rapidly drifting off topic!) :-)

"Robin Smith" wrote in message
om...
Predictably, the Murdoch Press has turned on the BBC rather than the
government over the Dr. Kelly affair. News

"BBC battles to save its reputation," Times.
"You Rat", ran the Sun

It is hard to divorce this sort of coverage from the fact that
Murdoch's holding company, owners of the Times, The Sun and The News
of the World, owns 40 per cent of British Sky Broadcasting, the main
rival of the BBC.

The key here is the agreement of co-operation between Murdoch and Blair just
prior to his first election win. Hence Murdoch supports Blair and Blair
supports Murdoch, and prevents any enforcement of the rule that no one can
own more than 20% of the press media and a TV station.
Sky satellite has a deal with just about every channel available on Sky,
whereby BSB owns a portion of the channel. If the rule was ever enforced
just about every channel would have to cease transmission, which would then
become the most unpopular political concern going.
In England and in Australia this is known as having someone by their
********.
cheers,

"Bardo" wrote in message
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Incorrect - the Daily Mail is not a newspaper. It is, however, a bunch of
badly written fictional essays by schoolchildren. They get paid £3.10 an
hour. It's the truth! How else can you explain the absolute drivel that
emanates from it?

Actually most of it seems to be written by the BNP these days - Hitler
would
have been proud!

Funnily enough in the early thirties the Daily Mail proudly supported the
British League of Fascists, and that ******* Moseley. Gives an interesting
slant to the Ideal Home Show, but I can't see Swastika cushions taking on.
cheers,

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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arache ecrite...

Funnily enough in the early thirties the Daily Mail proudly supported the
British League of Fascists, and that ******* Moseley.

Indeed: the very same Oswald Moseley, father of Max Moseley, the current
president of the FIA.

Bloody hell. Top tip! I always thought Mike Bates was his heir.
cheers,

"arache" writes:

[The Daily Mail]

Well there single highlight was naming the Lawrence murderers, and
"inventing" tabloid bingo.

And don't forget the Fred Bassett cartoon

--
Geoff Rimmer www.sillyfish.com

"Robin Smith" wrote in message
om...
Predictably, the Murdoch Press has turned on the BBC rather than the
government over the Dr. Kelly affair. News

"BBC battles to save its reputation," Times.
"You Rat", ran the Sun

It is hard to divorce this sort of coverage from the fact that
Murdoch's holding company, owners of the Times, The Sun and The News
of the World, owns 40 per cent of British Sky Broadcasting, the main
rival of the BBC.

..

ach does it matter? we all know blair had him killed....I mean who goes all
the way to the woods just to slit their wrists, don't belive that for a
second...

Personally I think the Daily Mail is the paper for pub landlords and taxi
drivers.. How else do they know what to rant on about for hours on end 8-)
"ADC" wrote in message
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The Daily Mail doesn't consistently support any poitical party- it blames
all
the woes of the British people on whatever party in in government...


Typical generic Daily Mail headlines...

"Why everything is disgraceful and should be banned"

"This looks like a good bandwagon- let's jump on it"

You can imagine when they were first conceiving the publication..

"Why don't we publish a newspaper where everything's the government's
fault?"

"What if it doesn't sell?"

"Then....we blame the government!"


Adam (rapidly drifting off topic!) :-)