So, anyone else been spammed overnight by The Sun telling us all about their front page?
It’s possibly the least surprising political move ever. The Sun now backs the Tories.
Really?
Labour’s lost it
September 30th, 2009 · 15 Comments
Tags: Newspaper Watch
15 responses so far ↓
1 Bob Piper // Sep 30, 2009 at 10:10 am
They always did back the Tories. For Murdoch, Blair was Tory enough.
2 dearieme // Sep 30, 2009 at 10:19 am
Will they indulge in the same sort of disgusting smearing, but now of Labour, that they did on behalf of Blair?
3 Prodicus // Sep 30, 2009 at 10:29 am
Yup.
4 Matthew // Sep 30, 2009 at 11:07 am
I do think it’s a bit strange that no-one discusses whether it is a desirable endorsement. I understand that it gives the endorsee (?) more votes, so is good electorally (the amount is debatable).
Tim adds: As has been discussed around here before: I think newspapers follow the prejudices of their readers, not create them. That’s the significance: that the pretty well informed editors of The Sun think that Labour has lost their C2DE readership. Not the other way around, that the endorsement will lose Labour the C2DE vote.
5 Newmania // Sep 30, 2009 at 11:27 am
I think Mr. Piper is going for core vote strategy. The timing was vicious ..perhaps refusing to curb the BBC`s piratical web behaviour was not so clever
6 Rob // Sep 30, 2009 at 11:50 am
Personally I was rather disappointed that Gordon Brown didn’t get really tough in his speech. I had hopped that he’d step up to the plate and make the 2010 elections interesting but the Labour Party Conference I think has totally failed to make it big in my minds eye.
More of my thoughts here: http://wp.me/pyq3l-3W
7 Matthew // Sep 30, 2009 at 12:41 pm
“that the pretty well informed editors of The Sun think that Labour has lost their C2DE readership. ”
Unless it’s to do with stories that have been kept out the public eye so they can be unleashed during an election campaign, I doubt Dominic Mohan, formerly of Bizarre, has anything to add on Labour’s chances that we can’t work out from the opinion polls.
8 Ross // Sep 30, 2009 at 4:14 pm
The endorsement doesn’t matter so much in itself, but if they start pushing negative stories about Labour for 8 months then it will have an effect. this sort of thing for instance:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2662254/Brown-goes-into-TV-meltdown.html
9 jameshigham // Sep 30, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I don’t see what anyone’s going on about. As you say …
10 Matthew // Sep 30, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Ross – but have they not been doing that for two years?
11 Ross // Sep 30, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Matthew- I am not a regular Sun reader so I can’t say, but I can’t recall an anti Brown story being so prominent on their website before.
12 He's Spartacus // Oct 1, 2009 at 12:44 am
The timing was viciousdelicious.
Fixed.
13 He's Spartacus // Oct 1, 2009 at 12:45 am
Oh.
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Sorry.
14 Hugo // Oct 1, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Dearime, I keep seeing your comments around the web on all sorts of unusual websites. Have you considered starting a blog?
15 Hugo // Oct 1, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Dearime, I keep seeing your comments around the web on all sorts of unusual websites. Have you considered starting a blog? I’d read it.
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