Yesterday Gordon Brown gave the ‘speech of his life’, and today The Sun newspaper has decided that it will back the Conservative party at the next General Election, whenever that may be.
Gordon Brown interviewed on BBC Breakfast
The Sun’s actions, and their timing of their actions, show a bloody good reason why the press in the UK are dangerous. A single newspaper proprietor, such as ‘Keith’ Rupert Murdoch, born in Australia and with no major interests in the UK besides making money through newspapers and Sky TV, can influence the way the people of Britain vote, purely so that the party which will give him the best chances of making more money get into power.
Why does Murdoch want Cameron quite so much? Cameron wants to shrink Ofcom, the media regulator, and allow more free-market ‘enterprise’. Murdoch would like that, as he can make more money.
So the moral of the story is that the man who owns the Times and Sun newspapers in the UK is forcing those titles to back the Conservative party so he can make more money. Don’t believe everything you read in the paper!
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