Terry Kirby

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New Books in American Studies · Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

and so it's a different climate, but they still have an influence that permeates through their websites, through social media, and influencing public discourse.

There's always been, within the rest of the media, whether you're talking about BBC News or serious newspapers like The Times or The Telegraph, they have to...

If a story's making waves in the tabloids, they feel obliged to follow it, whether it's about politics or whether it's about a celebrity.

They're having affairs or something.

The rest of the British media eventually will catch up and will follow it.

But you have to also remember that the British media particularly is dominated by...

a right-wing influence consensus.

The newspapers on the center and the left are very, very much in the minority.

So if the Sun takes on a particular position on politics, it's going to be followed by the Times and by the Telegraph and by

We now have right-wing television stations in the UK, such as GB News, which follow a more right-wing agenda, closer to the kind of agendas that you see being pushed by Fox News and so forth in the States.

So the influence is still there, but it's much more diffuse than the others.

The Levinson inquiry of 2011-12, which followed the hacking controversy, did expose a lot of the connections between politicians of all sorts, previous prime ministers such as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown,

And their relationship with people such as, such as Rebecca Brooks, who was Ruben Murdoch's kind of, you know,

leading light or runs the Rupert Murdoch's newspapers in the UK or the Murdoch family's newspapers in the UK and the closeness between her and various politicians was quite remarkable to be honest and her ability to befriend people in power of all types

irrespective of their political persuasions was quite remarkable.

But I think there is a general feeling that they've rode back from that quite a lot.

But the influence is still there.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, there's no question of it.

I mean, I was talking earlier about the kind of illustrated police news and other Victorian penny dreadfuls.

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