Monday, 11 May 2015

Was it the Sun wot won it?

Rupert Murdoch backs another election victor, but was it the Sun wot won it?

Pro-Tory, anti-Labour coverage by Sun, Times, Mail and Telegraph was a notable feature of campaign, though jury is out on its impact



In the1992 general election it was the Sun “wot won it” for John Major’s Conservatives. In 2015 such hubristic declarations seemed to hark from a different era, dating back to a time before the advent of social media and rolling news curbed the influence of the rightwing press.

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Sunday, 10 May 2015

UK media partisan - even more than Fox News says David Axelrod


David Axelrod: UK media most partisan I have seen – even more than Fox News

‘I’ve worked in aggressive media environments before but not this partisan,’ says top aide to Barack Obama who has advised Ed Miliband in the British election

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Election 2015: newspaper front pages