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    Uboat's correct about British media partisanship. Note, however, that the Telegraph is a Tory paper.

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    Hi Tequila,

    Quote Originally Posted by tequila View Post
    Uboat's correct about British media partisanship. Note, however, that the Telegraph is a Tory paper.
    So? Blair and the current government in the UK are Labour, not Tory. The war in Iaq isn't popular with large segments of the British voters, and this may be seen as a chance to stick it to Labour and win the next election, especially now that Blair is gone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by marct View Post
    Hi Tequila,



    So? Blair and the current government in the UK are Labour, not Tory. The war in Iaq isn't popular with large segments of the British voters, and this may be seen as a chance to stick it to Labour and win the next election, especially now that Blair is gone.
    Except that the Tories are also prowar.

    Most likely is that the reporter chose to report gossip as news.

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    Is it true that Brit media are quicker on the draw with rumor and relatively unsubstantiated material?

    It would be interesting (and puzzling) if in fact true, because British libel and slander laws are apparently much more friendly to plaintifs than defendants, relative to what we find in the U.S....or at least so Geoffrey K. Pullum, a (very funny) linguist argued in a short but amazing article called The Linguistics of Defamation in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 3, 371-377.

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    My experience reading the Brit news media is absolutely, yes. This goes even for better publications as for the national tabloids like the Daily Mail or the Sun.

    Even the best British publications like the Financial Times and the Economist are quite open about inserting editorial slant into their news stories. That being said, the FT is still among the best papers in the world.

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