Newspapers and Politics

[gsm1973]

Where can I find which newspapers are affiliated or biased to a particular political party?

[noxlumos]

The Daily Mail = Neo fascists.

[Grunty]

The news media can easily manipulate public opinion, as can be seen in Answerbank from time to time. For example, according to the Seattle Times in April 2005, 56 percent of Americans still thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the start of the war, while 60 percent said they believed Iraq provided direct support to the al-Qaida terrorist network. The only real way to determine their bias is to read as many papers as you can and compare their versions of the same stories. It is no use considering who owns the papers, because the UK now has papers with different opinions in the same group. In the UK I find that provincial papers have less bias than the national ones.

[Drisgirl]

Just read them and I'm not being fasecious.You know instinctively by the slant they put on different topics and also by their editorials - where they have free rein to express their opinions.

The Sun,which I browse,was Tory but changed their allegiance to Labour.They at least headlined it by telling their readers.Probably because no-one would have noticed anyway (see how I niftly got that in before A.N Other did:))

[Ward-Minter]

The Daily Mail is new Liberal. The best paper probably.

The Guardian is new left

The FT is just boring though quite right wing

The Sun/Star/Mirror are ok if you want down the middle throw-away news. Sun a little right though.

The Independent is new left

Socialist Worker is commie

The Express is pretending to be something its not, i.e good

The Evening Standard is right of centre.

The Brighton and Hove Argus is my local piece of bum wipe.

If you want unbiased, informed documented news written by decent journalists who know their onions, then buy The Daily Mail. There is no alternative.

[bondy]

Not many are actually affiliated and they do drift a bit so its not cut in stone. Blair is as right as Thatcher and this has blurred newspapers leanings and they are more subtle in the way they show affiliation.Sometimes the are pro Tory and sometimes Labour on certain issues.
In most newspapers they have somewhere inside the paper what is called the 'leader column'. This is an article written by the editor or a senior journalist and is purely opinion given on a certain subject. This will tell you which way a paper is leaning. Though in tabloids this is often the front page as well!

[bondy]

What exactly is new Liberal (Ward-Minter) ? Is that Mark Oaten or Simon Hughes? I think not. The Daily Mail is Right not Neo Fascist (noxlumos) get things in perspective. Exaggeration undermines your argument!

[Ward-Minter]

bondy

1) Blair is as right as Thatcher

2) Exaggeration undermines your argument

What a contradiction. Don't ever compare Baroness Thatcher, the greatest leader since Churchill. to that wimpish toothy loser of a PM who is married to a wirey lipped hussy of a wife.

New Liberal is what I would say my politics are. Not so much party politics more philosophical than actual. New Liberal is merging the free market economy with the rights of the common man. And the expulsion of asylum seekers.

[gary baldy]

There is an old adage that goes something like this:

The Times - read by people who used to run the country
The Financial Times - read by people who really run the country
Daily Telegraph - read by people who would like to run the country
Daily Mail- read by people who would like the country to be run by people who read The Times
The Guardian - read by people who think that the people who run the country shouldnt be running the country
The Sun - read by people who dont care who runs the country as long as she has got nice t*ts.

[Loosehead]

nearly Gary:

Telegraph: Read by the people who run the country

Times: Read by the people who think they run the country.

Mail: Read by the wives of the people who run the country.

FT: Read by the people who own the country

Mirror: Read by the people who think another country should run the country.

The Sun: As Gary says

[Holbeckian]

or as updated Loosehead

The Times is read by people who run the country

The Mirror is read by people who think they run the country

The Financial Times is read by the people who own the country

The Daily Express is read by people who think the country should be run the way it used to be

The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think the country is being run the way it used to be

The Independent is read by people who know who are running the country but are sure they�re doing it wrong

The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country

The Morning Star is read by people who think another country should be running the country

The Daily Mail is read by people who believe another country is already running the country

The Sun is read by people who don�t care who the hell runs the country as long as she�s got big tits

The Star is read by people who can�t read

And the Sport is read by people who believe Elvis, Aliens and The Man In The Moon are running the country

[gary baldy]

Spot on chaps - i knew is was wrong - i was trying to remember it from memory. (what's a memory?)

[Drisgirl]

Thats sexist - I dont care about the size of the tits - I just like the problem page and of course Bizarre:)

[Grunty]

ward-minter - That's the style; keep the joke until the last line (1452 posting)

[colenso]

But surely 'The Sport' is the joke..................??

[smudge]

I read the Daily Mail & The Mail on Sunday & I couldn't care a less who knows - it's up to me what I read!

[colenso]

Maybe not Smudge, but it gives a lot of us an idea of where your ideas come from and where they are bolstered....

[smudge]

But who's really interested colenso?

It's of no interest to me what other AB users read - it's entirely their business.

P.S. I don't let politics rule my life either.

[smudge]

P.P.S. I also watch the news on TV & on the internet.

[colenso]

Smudge......

Shanyestar: �I believe Enoch Powell made this speech in 1968 and I remember at the time my Dad saying that we would see anarchy in this country. �Not in my lifetime but yours� were his words. He said to me that we would be pandering to an immigrant population. His words ring true to mean you see what is going on in this country today.�

Smudge: "Shaneystar - I could have written that myself word for word"

Who's interested? Well I am because when I read any comment from you, I know where it's coming from....I know what your influences are..and I now know to treat you for what you appear to be...

[Drisgirl]

Whats that got to do with someone innocently asking about newspapers.How to confuse a new member in one fell swoop.