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I'd argue that, of these, only the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, and Daily Mirror have a consistent- almost permanent - party allegiance: the others are far more flexible and malleable, not tribal; they have shifted allegiances as party policies and outlooks have changed, and indeed, as the view of their readerships, which a good editor seeks to reflect (rather than to manipulate, as conspiracy theorists like to claim) change.
e.g. The Sun has backed Labour in the fairly recent past. The Times tends more towards an "establishment" worldview than something strictly partisan. The FT, in a slightly diferent way, too. (And that endorsed the Lib Dems this time). The Daily Express did go full-on UKIP for a time, having been New Labour before. While the Guardian has backed the Lib Dems at election time in the past decade, too.
Dominic H | 16.12.19 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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There appear to be two routes to neutrality: consistently high quality journalism (FT) versus just not publishing any news (Daily Star)!
Mike Newman | Homepage | 16.12.19 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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Having at least 4 out of top 6 papers blue means that main stream media is probably very anti-Corbyn. Even I (a non-British and non-English-speaker) can feel it when I read the Telegraph's front page.
Patrickov | 16.12.19 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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The recent purchase of The I by the Daily Mail's owners obviously places the future political independence of the paper in serious doubt.
dg writes: The editor says not.
Arlu | 16.12.19 - 1:08 p.m. | #
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I'm sure the newspaper proprietors don't accept they have no influence on the public. They wouldn't bother to print the character assassinations they do if they didn't think they were going to be effective. The 6:1 ratio in favour of right wing newspapers is then amplified by the broadcast media when newspaper headlines are so often used without mediation as a starting point for further discussion.
ActonMan | 16.12.19 - 3:38 p.m. | #
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Agreed Dominic, whereas The Telegraph has always been a pure Conservative paper, I wouldn't call the Times a Tory paper, it's backed Tony Blair previously
Indeed the Sun generally backs the winning party
Mikey C | 16.12.19 - 5:33 p.m. | #
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Do the papers influence readers, or do the readers choose the papers that reflect their views? It's one thing going onto newspaper websites for another opinion, but how many people would spend money on a newspaper which had different views to their own?
After all on social media a lot of people congregate on echo chambers, where they are surrounded by people who agree with them.
Mikey C | 16.12.19 - 5:35 p.m. | #
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