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.
Truss (general uk sucks thread)
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?
Shame that didn’t run longer
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.
Yep.
Lol! That’s amazing
Lol. What a cunt
Brilliant
Suggest Tyson gets on the Asics Gel Kayano and works off that belly.
had to re watch that twice just to make sure no one was calling him a cunt in the back ground
4 days later
Disappointed to not see ‘invade France’ on there.
The undeniable future is our two great nations becoming even further intwined and isolated from the rest of the world as Europe moves farther and farther away form us while simultaneously continuing to open up to China.
Sex education to be removed from schools and the reintroduction of jazz mag pages scattered around parks for kids to find.