Terry Kirby
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660 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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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.
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.
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