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Originally Posted by denphone

And thats is the problem as there are too many politicians who pander to politically aligned newspapers and to certain sections of the public without properly thinking through the next move

Its been happening for years. Just read here to see in what year which party was happy to have one of the Murdoch papers support it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun...ted_Kingdom%29

The Sun switched support to Labour on 18 March 1997, six weeks before the General Election victory which saw Labour leader Tony Blair become Prime Minister with a large parliamentary majority, despite the paper having attacked Blair and New Labour up to a month earlier. Its front page headline read THE SUN BACKS BLAIR and its front page editorial made clear that while it still opposed some New Labour policies, such as the Minimum Wage and Devolution, it believed Blair to be "the breath of fresh air this great country needs."[54] John Major's Conservatives, it said, were "tired, divided and rudderless".[54] Blair, who had radically altered his party's image and policies, noting the influence the paper could have over its readers' political thinking, had courted it (and Murdoch) for some time by granting exclusive interviews and writing columns.

2009: The Sun returns to the Conservatives Politically, the paper's stance was less clear under Prime Minister Gordon Brown who had succeeded Blair in June 2007. Its editorials were critical of many of Brown's policies and often more supportive of those of Conservative leader David Cameron. Rupert Murdoch, head of The Sun's parent company News Corporation, speaking at a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, said that he acts as a "traditional proprietor". This means he exercises editorial control on major issues such as which political party to back in a general election or which policy to adopt on Europe.[67]

So as you can see they all wanted the support of the numpty Murdoch.