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visagrunt wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Makes me wonder how bad the other media outlets in the UK are...
It's really quite simple, Inuyasha:
Quote:
The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country
The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country should be run by another country
and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
...
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
---Yes, Prime Minister by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country
The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country should be run by another country
and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
...
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
---Yes, Prime Minister by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
That still doesn't explain how they supposedly have so much influence over the elections in the UK.
28 Mar 2011, 5:35 pm
Inuyasha wrote:
visagrunt wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Makes me wonder how bad the other media outlets in the UK are...
It's really quite simple, Inuyasha:
Quote:
The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country
The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country should be run by another country
and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
...
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
---Yes, Prime Minister by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country
The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country should be run by another country
and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
...
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
---Yes, Prime Minister by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
That still doesn't explain how they supposedly have so much influence over the elections in the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
the 1980s
The Sun's sales grew during the 1980s and the paper became increasingly brash under the editorship of Kelvin MacKenzie. Bingo, introduced in 1981, was a key driver of the circulation rise.
The torpedoing of the Belgrano was celebrated on the front page of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun
The Sun became an ardent supporter of Margaret Thatcher and Conservative Party policies and actions, including the Falklands War. The coverage "captured the zeitgeist", according to Roy Greenslade, Assistant Editor at the time though privately an opponent of the war, but also "xenophobic, bloody-minded, ruthless, often reckless, black-humoured and ultimately triumphalist."[15] One of the paper's best known front pages, published on 4 May 1982, appeared to celebrate the news of the torpedoing of the Argentine ship the General Belgrano during the Falklands War by running the story under the headline "GOTCHA".[16] The headline was changed for later editions when the extent of Argentine casualties became known.[17] Sunday Times reporter John Shirley witnessed copied of this edition of The Sun being thrown overboard by sailors and marines on HMS Fearless.[18]
There were many vitriolic personal attacks on Labour leaders by The Sun during election campaigns, such as in 1983 when The Sun ran a front page featuring an unflattering photograph of Michael Foot, then aged almost 70, claiming he was unfit to be Prime Minister on grounds of his age, appearance and policies, alongside the headline "Do You Really Want This Old Fool To Run Britain?"[19] A year later, in 1984, The Sun made clear its enthusiastic support for the re-election of Ronald Reagan as president in the USA. Reagan was two weeks off his 74th birthday when he started his second term, in January 1985.
On 1 March 1984 the newspaper extensively quoted a respected American psychiatrist claiming that British left-wing politician Tony Benn was "insane", with the psychiatrist discussing various aspects of Benn's supposed pathology.[20] The story, which appeared on the day of the Chesterfield byelection in which Benn was standing, was discredited when the psychiatrist quoted by The Sun publicly denounced the article and described the false quotes attributed to him as "absurd", The Sun having apparently fabricated the entire piece. The newspaper made frequent scathing attacks on what the paper called the "loony left" element within the Labour Party and on institutions supposedly controlled by it, such as the left-wing Greater London Council and Liverpool City Council.
The Sun, during the Miners' strike, of 1984–85 supported the police and the Thatcher government against the striking NUM miners. On 23 May 1984, The Sun prepared a front page with the headline "Mine Führer" and a photograph of Scargill with his arm in the air, a pose which made him look as though he was giving a Nazi salute. The print workers at The Sun, regarding it as an attempt at a cheap smear, refused to print it.[21] The Sun strongly supported the April 1986 bombing of Libya by the US, which was launched from British bases. Several civilians were killed during the bombing. Their leader was "Right Ron, Right Maggie".[22]
In January 1986 Murdoch shut down the Bouverie Street premises of The Sun and News of the World, and moved operations to the new Wapping complex in East London, substituting the electrician's union for the print unions as his production staff's representatives and greatly reducing the number of staff employed to print the papers; a year-long picket by sacked workers was eventually defeated (see Wapping dispute). That year, Clare Short attempted in vain to persuade Parliament to outlaw the pictures on Page Three and gained approbrium from the newspaper for her stand.
During the 1987 general election, the Sun ran an extraordinary mock-editorial entitled "Why I'm Backing Kinnock", by Joseph Stalin.[23
It demonised the left with its daily coverage and won votes for the right by doing so. I think at its peak the readership was over ten million.
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