Truss (general uk sucks thread)
The BANTS brothers in arms are back!
Decent return if you don’t mind defrauding the country and killing people in the process:
Or winning as I like to call it
What are you doing, Amps?
Amps Does he fuck - he hasn’t had influence was a couple of decades now. His titles pander to their audiences and give them what they already want.
Along_the_Wire he hasn’t had influence was a couple of decades now
DuFunk English
Along_the_Wire I dunno, I reckon to a certain set of the british voters he still has some sway.
Fairly sure Rupert Murdoch is married to Jerry Hall.
Which is nice.
Whilst having a google for that little insight from Allen, I found this gem:
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alistair yep she followed Wendy Deng who allegedly had been having a tempestuous affair with Tony Blair
Interestingly, a lot of these birds like Wendy Deng, and Lucy Liu, who Westerners seem to fancy (maybe not you but Wendy Deng has snagged a few multi-millionaires and a toyboy), the Chinese consider bang average - actually pretty minging (particularly Lucy Liu with dark skin and slitty eyes, they actually consider her ‘peasant-looking’).
Their point being that an ambitious golddigger with Wendy Deng’s looks would have to go to the West as there’s not a chance in hell a Chinese multi-millionaire let alone billionaire would be interested in her.
They consider someone like Fan Bingbing the epitome of Asian beauty.
Is fanny bangbang a real person, dave?
Amps’ Raw Twitter Sewage © Hugo
Along_the_Wire On topic ish:
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.
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.