Terry Kirby
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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They weren't really interested in kind of routine kind of violence or crimes of any kind, but anything involving immigrants or people of color, as it were, would be the story.
and that was relatively recently, within the last 10 years.
The Daily Mail... So the Justice for Stephen Lawrence case was something they could hold up against people who would criticise them for that kind of tone towards black people.
I mean, the Daily Mail has always got an overwhelmingly white...
lower middle middle class audience in the uk as as i'm sure you know we're all obsessed by class in the uk um and the daily mail does define that class it's sort of it's sort of suburban uh communities market towns again a lot of places that up until recently would not have had
many people from ethnic minority backgrounds, immigrant backgrounds, and so forth, or even asylum seekers housed in hotels, which does happen now in some places.
So that was very much the Daily Mail's audience.
so to pick up on this case of an inner city murder of a young black man was quite dramatic for the Daily Mail but it was a case that needed highlighting there's no question about that I can't there aren't many other examples that come to happen of the Daily Mail or other tabloid newspapers taking up the cudgel in quite the same way
This served the Daily Mail very well at a particular time.
And Dacre admits that it was something that, you know, at the point he thought, what have I done?
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.
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