Murdoch to Staff: Influence the Election

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory/The Independent

Rupert Murdoch allegedly told his journalists they needed to work harder at stopping the Labour Party from winning England's election, and warned if they didn't the company would fail. According to sources speaking to The Independent, the newspaper mogul said that a Labour government would break up News Corp. when he visited the offices in February. Two days later, The Sun published a two-page spread that supported David Cameron and attacked a leading Labour Party politician.

Read it at The Independent

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Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/04/20/murdoch-to-staff-influence-the-election.html

[Enrique]

1. there goes his reputation for being impartial

now people are going to start thinking that happens at Fox News.

[ornotna]

2. Don't buy the sun.

JFT96

[brooklynite]

13. I just subscribed to the Guardian

Largely to cover the UK election, but it's great for over-all news gathering.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Good thing Murdoch would never instruct Fox talking heads in America to do the same thing, right?

Fox and 'journalism' do not belong in the same sentence. Evil. That would belong.

[RecoveringJournalist]

4. VOTE

Let me be the first to say, Vote Darth Murdoch and Darth Ailes 2016 - Feel the POWER of the dark side!

[mwooldri]

5. Anyone with half a brain knows which newspapers support a particular political party.

Wikipedia's entry is spot on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom - they break it down by political party.

Murdoch's papers have been almost totally Tory. Except when Blair was in. When Blair went out, so did Murdoch's support of Labour.

The good news about this is that you don't have to buy the gutter press if you don't want to. Get some wonderfully neutral reporting and turn on the TV or the radio... and when you hear the words "party political broadcast by the X party", it's your cue to change the channel.

[T_i_B]

7. Murdoch is also supporting the SNP in Scotland

In no small part due to the fact that the Tories are about as popular as bubonic plague north of the border.

And the SNP are the most likely partners for Labour in a minority government, so it stands to reason that they might put a stop to any attempt by Labour to go after News International.

[Denzil_DC]

8. "Murdoch is also supporting the SNP in Scotland"

Yeah, really feeling that Murdochy love up here ...

[T_i_B]

9. Was that actually in the Scottish currant bun?

Or is the Scot bashing just reserved for the editions south of the border?

[Denzil_DC]

10. Yeah, It's been amazing watching the differences between the two editions!

If you're lucky enough to have access online to the Sun behind its paywall, then there's this available UK-wide: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/6362264/Labour-plotting-German-style-alliance-with-the-SNP.html

It's as if they imagine we wouldn't notice what they're saying about us "down south" in this day and age of social media: http://wingsoverscotland.com/to-break-your-walls/



Lots of opportunistic tut-tutting about the wrecking ball image in the (Labour-supporting, often rabidly anti-SNP) Daily Record: http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/nicola-sturgeon-slams-sun-newspaper-5344939

The Sun, even the English edition, has been a lot less offensive (and downright irresponsible) than the likes of the Telegraph, the Mail, and the Times.



We're apparently all mad, bad, and dangerous to know, let alone be allowed any part in the governance of the UK:

http://wingsoverscotland.com/zoomers-on-stunned/#more-69955

Most of the media are flailing wildly. Depending on the day, the outlet, and (in the case of print media) the location of publication, after the election the SNP are to being lined up for a treacherous deal with Cameron, Miliband, or, on a particularly bad day, Gozer.

[T_i_B]

11. As you say....

It's as if they imagine we wouldn't notice what they're saying about us "down south" in this day and age of social media

Couldn't have put it better myself. Sooner or later the currant bun's strategy is going to backfire on them.

Fear-mongering about the SNP has become a big part of the Tory message, and as you know, that is what gets unquestioningly parroted by most of the UK media.

[mwooldri]

12. Rupert knows there are hardly any Tories north of Hadrian's Wall.

So to support the SNP in Scotland makes sense to Murdoch. But then again even the Daily Record knows Labour is on the ropes. We're likely looking at a Lab and SNP, maybe LibDem coalition as the end result. And maybe a forced no confidence vote in Parliament to force early elections if the major party feels it is politically expeditious to do so.

[melman]

6. Not a Murdoch fan

but I think it's safe to say anyone that owns a newspaper aims to do this.