Miliband Destroyed Murdoch?

[Gromit]

In an informative column in the Guardian, I learn that Ed Miliband dextroyed Rupert Murdoch. I confess, that was a bit of a surprise because I tend to regard Ed as a waste of space. Perhaps I should re-assess him in view of this startling revelation?

// Mr Miliband, of course, exults in being the man who destroyed Murdoch in this country. Is it fanciful to believe that his real purpose in triggering last week's row – so assiduously supported by the liberal media which sneers at the popular press – was an attempt to neutralise Associated, the Mail's publishers and one of Britain's most robustly independent and successful newspaper groups. //

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/12/left-daily-mail-paul-dacre

Do you think the author is not just a little paranoid?

[Peter Pedant]

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The wild eyed industry secretary Vince Cable - he is the one who said he declared war on Murdoch and was then disqualified from decsiions concerning the gentleman...... was right ! New of the Screws and phone hacking ....

So when Vincey said Snowden was right to leak the GCHQ stuff I sat up and listened.

[mikey4444]

The fact that the Guardian has allowed Dacre space to air his views rather seems to suggest that it is trying to show a balanced view. The Guardian is often lambasted on AB for being "lefty" but it has show many times in the past that it is ready and willing to give Labour politicians a hard time, just as as often as it gives the Tories a bashing as well. It used to be known as a Liberal paper years ago I seem to remember.

[anotheoldgit]

/// I learn that Ed Miliband destroyed Rupert Murdoch. I confess, that was a bit of a surprise because I tend to regard Ed as a waste of space. Perhaps I should re-assess him in view of this startling revelation? ///

He is obviously living up to his Marxist roots, no wonder you are now beginning to take a shine to him.

[anotheoldgit]

I don't know if many bothered to read the whole of the article, but I thought the PS at the end most interesting.

/// PS – this week the head of MI5 – subsequently backed by the PM, the deputy PM, the home secretary and Labour's elder statesman Jack Straw – effectively accused the Guardian of aiding terrorism by publishing stolen secret security files. The story – which is of huge significance – was given scant coverage by a BBC which only a week ago had devoted days of wall-to-wall pejorative coverage to the Mail. Again, I ask fair readers, what is worse: to criticise the views of a Marxist thinker, whose ideology is anathema to most and who had huge influence on the man who could one day control our security forces … or to put British lives at risk by helping terrorists? ///

[jno]

I'd take Vince Cable's view of things ahead of Jack Straw's any day. And I'd take that of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo ahead of that of Dacre. (His father sat out the war, you know.)

[Gromit]

AOG
MI5 and GCHQ should be closed down. They handed all our secrets to the American NSA who prompty lost them to Wikileaks. After displaying such incompetence, they should be ashamed of themselves, and the damage they have done.

[Quizmonster]

I read the whole article and was particularly taken with the following sentence from Dacre:

"They scoff at our readers who, WHILE TOLERANT, fret that the country's schools and hospitals can't cope with mass immigration." (My capitals)

We see just how 'tolerant' Mail readers are right here on AnswerBank every single day, so that comment alone should be sufficient for anyone to dismiss the man's views out of hand. His definition of 'tolerant' presumably included the right to print a photograph of a man's gravestone as back-up to an article containing sheer lies about him.

[mikey4444]

Quizmonster..the DM was caught red-handed over the Miliband article. It was a naked attempt to smear Ed, and in turn put the Labour Party in a bad light. I don't have a problem with newspapers being partizan, as long as they are honest about it. The DM tried dressing this up as some kind of documentary, like Panorama, or Horizon. But it just a smear, and a clumsy one at that. The gravestone photo was particularly nasty and completely unnecessary.

As even a majority of DM readers thought that it was over the top, perhaps they will read their newspaper of choice with a bit more scepticism in the future.