Terry Kirby
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660 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Terry Kirby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, you would say probably the Telegraph and the Mail are loyal supporters of the country and of the royal family and the institutions of the state and so forth, but...
That doesn't stop them going at the organs of the state as and when they feel they want to.
There's no holding back, as it were, over the criticism of the state and politicians and so forth.
Although, again, newspapers say they're very patriotic.
That doesn't stop them having a go.
We're much less respectful of the state than most other newspapers around in many other parts of the world.
I mean, I teach students from all over the world, journalism, and students from some countries just don't understand the idea of questioning the authority of the state.
They don't understand the idea of actually writing stories which are critical of their country in some way.
They find it difficult to ask questions.
It's about loyalty.
It's considered unpatriotic to question the organs of the state.
There is something quite British about that attitude, but you can look at other countries and you'll see that newspaper proprietors and the media generally is very influential and wants to be at the seat of power.
The relationship between Fox News and
and and and donald trump is very interesting it's a bit of a love-hate relationship but fox news wants to be there you know getting the ear of the president and getting those exclusive interviews all the while because it serves their their their audience and again it's about commercial commercial imperatives and you know you find in
you know, in kind of other countries that don't have the same kind of democratic process.
It's that, you know, the media will be subservient and put over the, you know, the prevailing ideology of the rulers, you know, perhaps in less democratic countries.
Well, I think that, yes, eventually the printing tabloids will fade.
There will come a point when it's simply not economic to keep printing them.
Because printing is in itself a very, and distribution is in itself a very expensive process.
And that's not just the tabloids that applies to all newspapers.
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