More Telegraph
21/06/04 11:57 Media
issues
Interesting to see The Observer coming down in favour
of a Barclay Bros takeover of the Telegraph
yesterday. Of course it doesn't matter what anyone
else says, the decision will be announced any day
now, but it's fun to speculate.
Also interesting to read, in the same paper, Peter Preston's piece on UKIP and how the press had been unable to sway the voters against supporting them. I'm not a UKIP supporter. I'm not anti-European either. If I were either of those things I'd be against UKIP because they've leeched support from the Conservatives who'd have stood a chance of actually doing something - and I'm not a Conservative either, if anyone wants to know. Nevertheless I find it encouraging rather than disillusioning that the public showed signs of thinking for itself rather than being spoonfed by the tabloids.
Maybe in 1992 it wasn't the Sun what won it after all.
Also interesting to read, in the same paper, Peter Preston's piece on UKIP and how the press had been unable to sway the voters against supporting them. I'm not a UKIP supporter. I'm not anti-European either. If I were either of those things I'd be against UKIP because they've leeched support from the Conservatives who'd have stood a chance of actually doing something - and I'm not a Conservative either, if anyone wants to know. Nevertheless I find it encouraging rather than disillusioning that the public showed signs of thinking for itself rather than being spoonfed by the tabloids.
Maybe in 1992 it wasn't the Sun what won it after all.
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