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Today’s post has too many comment boxes. (Genuine thought).
And what about the Sunday newspaoers please?

dg writes: See Wikipedia. I've stuck to the dailies.
It would also be interesting to note the grouped ownership of the various titles. It's an oligopoly.
These figures show how insignificant the national press is these days in influencing elections, the idea that Corbyn's personal unpopularity is due to the press is wishful thinking from his supporters.

dg writes: Table number five confirms that the national press is not 'insignificant'.
As a Presiding Officer at Polling Stations in the eighties and nineties we were always told to keep the newspapers away from voters sights. Some of the headlines on Polling Day could be cruel. The Sun's treatment of Neil Kinnock springs to mind.

I welcome the timing of today's post, given the remarks of Jeremy Corbyn and John MC Donnell at the weekend, which I think had some substance, and was not just sour grapes.

British newspapers have long been held up as having the lowest standards of the low in many respects,and things are not changing.
'News' papers - 'Opinion slingers', more like.










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