Amps It was definitely true and NewsUK (Sun, Times and Talksport) is probably the last bastion of that, but really only to a very minor degree. NewsUK still loses a lot a money over the phone hacking scandal. Telegraph, Reach PLC (Mirror, Express, Star), DMG (Mail, Metro, The i) are about profit and selling copies and ads - all of them drive the agenda of their readers for fear or losing reach. You could argue that the previous regimes have shaped the readers opinion already, and there’s a fair bit of truth in that, but that’s where the influence stops.
