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Originally Posted by Mick
No, but the governments rebuttal is the best response, against a failing newspaper business, no wonder when it writes hatchet job pieces laid with utter lies and inaccuracies.
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Maajid Nawaz hits nail on head regarding Sunday times hit piece yesterday:
https://amp.lbc.co.uk/radio/presente...ts-boris-john/ |
The Sunday Times is hardly an anti-Conservative paper although both The Times and the SundayTimes have more editorial freedom than The Sun does.
Usually it's the left who becomes paranoid about every single newspaper article critical of 'their side' being part of a larger game concocted by the evil proprietors of those newspapers. A single negative article about the Government must be because Rupert Murdoch wants Boris Johnson out? That's overstating it a bit. If it's true then why trust The Sun instead? Other than one paper is saying something you disagree with and the other isn't. Murdoch decided to use The lower-circulation Sunday Times to start the move against Johnson but uses the higher-circulation Sun newspaper to defend him?
This is the standard retort now to every negative article about Labour or the Tories. It's a smear, it's a hatchet job. There is an entirely loyal breed of voter now who only accepts the word of the Government as the truth and anyone holding them to account as lairs, people who seem to trust the state (or their political party if they're not in government) without question.