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bosstrabs Get her on the gear Dave, the weight’ll drop off her!

    Does Amps ever turn off the Twitter bilge pipe for five mins nowadays?

    • Amps replied to this.

        Millsy Think it was Doris Day who used to get young studio girls to blow it up her arse, feared ruining her looks etc. and liked young girls.

          Amps’ Raw Twitter Sewage © Hugo

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          He had a different Fanny Bangbang in every port

            Amps This just isn’t true anymore - it certainly was a couple of decades ago, but that power has gone. It’s about profit, not political influence any more, it’s about pandering to the readers’ needs and wants, not the whim of a press baron (what a ridiculously dated concept that is). It’s about circulation, click-bait and ad revenue.

            • Amps replied to this.

                Along_the_Wire I hear what you’re saying, they don’t have the same circulation anymore, and this some of their power has gone, but wasn’t it always about money? Be it with Murdochs other companies and holdings (oil, mining etc) or his papers and their circulation? Does one not go hand in hand with the other? Tell people what they want to hear, sell papers, in those same papers tell people lies that prop up his investments?

                    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.