Terry Kirby
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first heard Dec 2025
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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.
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.
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