British Media - the Murdoch Empire
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Wednesday, 31 July, 2002, 02:04 GMT 03:04 UK
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By Andrew Walker To some he is little less than the devil incarnate, to others, the most progressive mover-and-shaker in the media business. Whatever the case, as head of a global broadcasting empire worth £30bn, Rupert Murdoch continues to provoke strong emotions Encyclopedic Entry: Rupert Murdoch (Encarta) |
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Murdoch's European holdings (paper) |
Blair would allow Murdoch to take over
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British - German Relations in the tabloids: Paper: Daily Mirror, 17.7.1990 Caption: "Vell, Englander, answer ze kvestion! Vy do you not like us?" (words in "The Mirror": aggessive, bullying, sentimental, anxious to be liked, inferiority complex) Accompanying comment: In the wake of the publication of the Chequers memorandum about Germany and the Germans, a series of cartoons satirized the comments made about the German character. In this piece Griffin juxtaposes classic and modern stereotype features (monocle, duelling scar, lederhose, Tirolian hat; swimming trunks and beach towels in the German national colours, the latter on sunbeds) turning this British reader's holiday at the European beach into a nightmare. |
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Die britischen Boulevard-blätter und das Feindbild Deutschland Yellow Press langt wieder zu Aachener Nachrichten 15.11.02
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Historic Background to "Achtung!" and "Surrender!" : The Blitz (BBC resources)
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Horrible! and it is not just the results the Germans do not like Source: BBC News |
BBC News, 24 October, 2001 Are national stereotypes offensive? It is not offensive to refer to Germans as 'Krauts', according to Britain's advertising watchdog. Source: BBC Talking Point *********************************************** Few laughs for 'humorous' Kraut |
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Sun ends price war |
RRRRAAAARRRR!! IT MAKES ME SO MAD by mattdrummer_2000 | 22.07.00 / 14.01.01 *********************************************** The best use I could think of for The Sun would be to mass circulate it as a weapon of war in an enemy country, and then watch that country self destruct as its populous jumps on every single stupid bandwagon sent rolling by said rag, eradicating all creative thought and reasoning. OK, maybe I'm being just slightly harsh, perhaps it is the population itself which is the problem by providing such huge demand for this monstrosity. However, I can't help feeling that The Sun is an awfully destructive force on the well being of this nation. This thing is breeding a nation of xenophobic, thoughtless zombies, as it rants and raves, creating for itself the image of being the 'people's paper' by supporting everything and everyone in sight, just so long as it's popular. Read more ... Source: Dooyoo |
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Robert Maxwell (1923-1991)British publisher and politician Robert Maxwell established a large media empire that included both British and American publishing companies. In 1984 he became chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers. (Encarta Encyclopedia) read more ...(online biography) |
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Sunday January 19, 2003 The Observer The Sun, which first supported Labour in 1997, has stayed onside. Last week the newly appointed editor Rebekah Wade was instructed by proprietor Rupert Murdoch to start exploiting public anxiety about New Labour's domestic policy failures. But an editorial still offered almost unqualified support on Iraq: 'His tough line is exactly right.' There was palpable relief in Downing Street that the paper's newfound domestic scepticism will not extend to the foreign arena. Unless, perhaps, military failure ensues. |
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Sunday Herald Sun Jan 19,2003 Media: Will Rebekah of Wapping shed The Sun's old clothes? Wade, 34, takes up the reins when The Sun -- dubbed the Squaddies' Favourite Read when it was shipped out to the troops in the Gulf War -- has a central role for Blair's government with a looming war in Iraq. Blair needs The Sun to support the conflict. |
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Jan 26, 2003
The Sun
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Facts, please WE bow to no one in our backing for the Prime Minister over Iraq. He has taken a courageous stand for what he believes is right. And he has been commendably frank about the threat Saddam Hussein poses to mankind. But Tony Blair owes it to all the Servicemen and women he is sending to the Gulf to be equally frank about their health. Our revelation that one soldier in five has refused an anthrax jab shows how desperately worried the Forces are. They have a right to know the facts — including what went wrong before the last Gulf War. Background to this comment: Nearly 25,000 British soldiers have refused to have the anthrax vaccine because they are scared it’s not safe. |
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Extract from: Mass Media: cultura effects (Media Ownership in the UK) Source: www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml The Sun can usually be relied upon to adopt a stridently xenophobic position on most issues relating to the non-British, ranging from the coverage of football (especially if England are playing Germany) to asylum seekers. In particular, the Sun will adopt an overtly jingoistic tone in any international conflict in which the UK is involved, perhaps the most notorious example being its headline 'Gotcha!' when the Argentinian warship General Belgrano was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands conflict. One of its most extraordinary outbursts came in November 2001 during the 'war on terrorism' in Afghanistan, when the newspaper accused those newspapers which failed to voice wholehearted support of being traitors. The Sun took the view that in times of war it is the duty of all press organs to support the government line, a view certainly in tune with the government's chief spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, who predictably criticized the 'corrosive negativism' of those newspapers which voiced any dissent. One wonders what Sun editor David Yelland thinks newspapers are for - presumably not to foster the 'diversity' which we have discussed above. |
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