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Why is most of it so right wing?

Does the media make people right wing or the other way around?
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Long slender neck wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:59 pm Why is most of it so right wing?

Does the media make people right wing or the other way around?
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Long slender neck wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:59 pm Why is most of it so right wing?

Does the media make people right wing or the other way around?
People with money own the media. Hope that answers your first question. The answer to the second is the first part of that question.
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Do they just want power?
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List of a few left wing media orgs in the UK

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A lot of the BBC
Guardian
LBC
Eveneing Standard

I could go on
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Daily Star is pretty left wing, IMO.
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It's the left wing media that have made me right wing.
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I've just seen BBC News described as 'fact based', as if this is something that should be optional for a news outlet.
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Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:51 pm List of a few left wing media orgs in the UK

Express
LBC
Eveneing Standard

I could go on
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Be interested to see what you come up with if you did "go on", since three of the five you listed are absolutely not left wing in the slightest.
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A lot of radio stations have news thats pretty right wing and I've noticed most are owned now by Global or Bauer.
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Daily Mail Group is owned by a non dom Viscount, whatever the f*** that is.
The Russian who Boris gave a peerage owns the Evening Standard although I think thats fairly irrelevant nowadays.
GB News- who owns that? Apparently they are broadcasting ‘turbo cancer’ conspiracy theories and ..
Ofcom say thats fine, their chairman is Michael Grade who was a Tory peer.
Murdoch of course owns The Sun and Times. Used to own Sky- no idea who controls that now.
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People with lots of money, want to keep their money or get even more money. So they buy the media outlets & persuade the Public, that altruism is bad. Simple folk should have no money, as they waste it & money should go to the very rich. Hence we have the obscene situation in the UK, where all Public Services have been pared to the bone by austerity, & the media are crying out for tax relief for the very rich.
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Proposition Joe wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:58 pm
Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:51 pm List of a few left wing media orgs in the UK

Express
LBC
Eveneing Standard

I could go on
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Be interested to see what you come up with if you did "go on", since three of the five you listed are absolutely not left wing in the slightest.
More than happy to continue

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Proposition Joe wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:58 pm
Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:51 pm List of a few left wing media orgs in the UK

Express
LBC
Eveneing Standard

I could go on
🤣🤣🤣

Be interested to see what you come up with if you did "go on", since three of the five you listed are absolutely not left wing in the slightest.
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Will any of the right wing media support Labour?
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faldO wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:54 pm It's the left wing media that have made me right wing.
But the right wing media doesn't make you left wing, presumably. Which kinda makes me think that you were probably right wing in the first place
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Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:51 pm List of a few left wing media orgs in the UK

Express
A lot of the BBC
Guardian
LBC
Eveneing Standard

I could go on
The Mirror was left wing, not read it in years
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Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:51 pm List of a few left wing media orgs in the UK

Express
A lot of the BBC
Guardian
LBC
Eveneing Standard

I could go on
Very good effort
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Channel 4. ITV. In fact, all of the original TV channels are socially far left.
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Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:28 pm
Proposition Joe wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:58 pm
Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:51 pm List of a few left wing media orgs in the UK

Express
LBC
Eveneing Standard

I could go on
🤣🤣🤣

Be interested to see what you come up with if you did "go on", since three of the five you listed are absolutely not left wing in the slightest.
More than happy to continue

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The 'Ear lot are lefties
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The Mindsweep wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:41 pm The 'Ear lot are lefties
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The Mindsweep wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:41 pm The 'Ear lot are lefties
It's actually getting a bit much.
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The Mindsweep wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:41 pm The 'Ear lot are lefties
A lot of the long running fanzines up and down the country have studenty lefty roots.

The Ear and Panda are not alone in that regard.
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Panda is also notable for continuing that fine lefty publication tradition of using sh*t fonts.
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