Brit Tabloids - Why?

lineker is def popular, he'd be a national treasure in a decade or so if he would stop spouting his vile leftist views

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/27/revenge-of-the-tabloids-brexit-dacre-murdoch

Several choice quotes

"Brown contacted the Sun … agreed to rearrange his diary so that he could go to their office that day … and sat down with the Sun’s outspoken rightwing political editor, Trevor Kavanagh, for an interview which … rapidly became a negotiation about policy.”

"During the Cameron governments, it felt like they (Murdoch and Dacre) were the adults, and the politicians were children.”

“When I look back at the words I used to use as a Sun sub,” James Alan Anslow remembered, “‘the gay plague’, ‘black gangs’. You’d get sacked if you used those now!”

A Sun journalist emailed me: “Just had massive compulsory redundos in editorial. Hardly enough bodies left to get out the paper. Mood is of the post-apocalyptic variety – survivors staggering around dazed and confused.”

I've always had a healthy disgust and anger against the Mail/Sun etc but today's front pages have really upset me. I can't concentrate on anything and I feel even more dispirited than ever. Fuck this country and fuck this sleepwalk into fascism. I never thought I'd see this kind of thing in my lifetime but I was obviously just being naive.

Stop Funding Hate... aka The Daily Mail

.. hit these cunts where it hurts. More of that please.

yeah keep it up

dismantling the tabloid press is pretty much the #1 priority for uk progress right now (aside from yknow education reform, mental health treatment etc)

corbyn should announce stringent press standards reform, he'd probably gain more support than he loses

dismantling the tabloid press is pretty much the #1 priority for uk progress right now

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corbyn should announce stringent press standards reform, he'd probably gain more support than he loses

Hmm.

On the one hand, anyone who speaks out against our red-topped kingmakers will not have a happy political career (though perhaps this can't get any worse than now for Corbyn)

On the other, it's interesting how both sides of the Brexit divide and now the Trump divide blame media misrepresentation: the alt-right's ire for "mainstream media", Trump's remarks on a "rigged press" and angry Brexiteers railing against the MSM while somehow seeing the tabloids as on their side against a conspiracy of metropolitan elites; the anti-Islamic German right's revival of favourite Nazi word "Lügenpresse" (and when I first read it I thought, hmm, yes, useful word for the tabloids, only to look up its history and feel itchy all over), which the internet tells me is now an alt-right buzzword outside Germany too

so maybe people from across the political spectrum could be brought onside, but "moar govt/quango intervention" is going to be hard to sell to the anti-elite and small-govt crowds, and obv the higher-ups know exactly what they're doing with this MSM meme

"So today I had to write abt Jo Cox"
"Ah that sucks man"
"Sucks even harder if you work for the Daily Hail, like me"
"How did you tend to the expectations of yr readership on this very delicate matter?"
"Immigrants, mate, immigrants. And that her death was her own fault."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CyBrtDRXcAA78CG.jpg

Bold of the Daily Mail to suggest that anyone concerned about immigrants is now a terror suspect.

can someone straight up firebomb the daily mail

also, hi theresa, i'm deadly serious

OMG, a Turkish person has a byline on that race-baiting - wonder if making someone w/foreign origins write shit about immigrants is the initiation rite at Dacre Towers?

The Mail have spent so much time pandering to repulsive right wing extremists they can't suddenly change tack and condemn one who murders an MP in cold blood, oh no.

How many angry articles have they written about the decline in social housing in the same time period? Just wondering...

If he'd got bedroom taxed or sanctioned out of his home, worrying that the next tenants might be immigrants would be classic fuckwitted legitimate concernism.

The Mail have spent so much time pandering to repulsive right wing extremists they can't suddenly change tack and condemn one who murders an MP in cold blood, oh no.

― calzino, Thursday, November 24, 2016 2:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at this point i consider the mail and the sun to be part and parcel of the far right

I don't see any other possible conclusion.

I can confirm today that following that landmark libel case, Katie Hopkins has entered into an IVA to avoid bankruptcy. I knew for a while but could not say anything for legal reasons. The arbitrary defender of free speech didn't want anyone to know, ironically...

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I've just spent the day at the hospital but that's cheered me right up that, thanks