Terry Kirby
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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, that still exists.
I mean, the news of the world, which Murdoch owned and
which bought and then closed in 2010, made its name from its reporting of crimes.
And there's a very famous quote by George Orwell in his essay about the decline of the English murder when he describes the traditional middle-class English home just before the war when
you know, everybody's, um, uh, settling down after their, their, their lunch of, of, of, of kind of roast beef and so forth.
And, um, uh, and, and, you know, what they want to do is read the news of the world, uh, uh, and absorb all the, the, the stories about murders and court cases and, and so forth.
And it's dominated the pages of the, of the news of the world.
Um, uh, and the, um,
the tabloid reporting of murder cases is just the same.
I mean, and in fact, the broadsheets were always rather kind of a bit more hands-off on the more salacious or more dramatic murder cases.
They would report them, but the reporting
would be quite constrained and so forth.
But over the time I've been a journalist, things have changed hugely.
Now they're much more likely to report on a murder case.
The other thing that is noticeable is that because of the endless...
of the websites, particularly Mail Online, but also the Daily Mirror and Daily Star and Sun websites, they now will pick up on court cases from other parts of the world, which probably wouldn't have been, which would not be reported in the print editions, but would have, I mean, for reasons of space or no relationship to the British audience.
but now with a much more kind of global approach of these websites, some of these cases of murders are being reported at length on some of the websites, particularly, as I say, Mail Online.
And that's, A, because they want to have a more global reach, but also because...
people will still click on them.
So you might see a headline on the, on the, on the, on the, on the mail online about, um, something like, you know, uh, crime bosses, mole gets murdered in gangland shootout.
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