Terry Kirby
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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Because he thought that they were going to get sued for libel.
So it was quite, it was, journalistically, it was a huge gamble.
What was interesting was it was the story that drove them.
The Sun, for instance, has taken up campaigns that are in the public interest over things like something called Sarah's Law, which is about identifying people with records of
of child abuse in public life or in public service and so forth.
The mail itself did campaigns against ending plastic bags, which, you know, is quite important environmentally.
So they have done it when it feels right and will appeal to the reader.
That's a very good question.
I think that
everywhere in the world, newspaper proprietors will want to influence public discourse, will want to influence politics.
They will want to have politicians on their side for all kinds of, I think, both political and personal economic reasons.
as it were, reasons, commercial reasons.
I mean, Rupert Murdoch's opposition to Brexit, for instance, was about a kind of visceral dislike of big...
kind of conglomerates uh but also it was about commercial interest um it wasn't necessarily about whether he's on the right or the left it was about you know he didn't want uh and has never wanted these newspapers to fall under perhaps what might have emerged out of europe of more uh and
more focused controls on the media in terms of ownership, regulation and so forth.
European newspapers with some exceptions
tend to be much more sober than UK newspapers, tend to be much more respectful of privacy of politicians and celebrities, people in the public eye, which has never been the case in the UK.
Elsewhere in the world, you see newspaper companies, magnates,
There's a kind of, again, there's different arguments in different countries.
In some places, it's about loyalty to the state, which UK newspapers don't have in the same way.
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