I have to ask. Is the Daily Telegraph a RW rag?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Quotes around the word "hero". QUOTES!!!! :mad: :argh: :mad: :argh: :mad: :argh: :mad: :argh: :mad: :argh: :mad: :argh: :mad: :argh:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/07/uitaly.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/07/ixportaltop.html

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I believe it is one of Conrad Black's papers...

...so, yes, it's a right-wing rag.:puke:

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. He has now been forced to sell it

to the Barclay brothers, a pair of rather reclusive brothers who live in the Channel Islands. They don't have Black's towering ego, so don't interfere in the editorial policy the way Black did, but it's still right wing - that's its market, and has been for 100 years.

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Yes.

Almost all of them are.

[ikri]

3. Is it right-wing???

They're probably the 2nd most right-wing paper in Britain. Only the Daily Mail is more frothing at the mouth right-wing nuts

[D-Notice]

5. Where does

The Sun (a.k.a. Pravda) fit in? I've always thought it was like the Hate-Mail, but trashier...

[ikri]

7. The Sun...

Only talks about politics when a celebrity is involved.

Besides, can you really call The Sun a newspaper? I've always thought of it as a comic along the same lines as The Beano.

[Vladimir]

13. The Sun is one of the most insidiously

racist, sexist and homophobic rags in Britain. It exists to promote the very worst human tendencies...

[soothsayer]

4. It's one of the ones the CIA uses to spread their disinfo

[tjwmason]

6. Commonly called the Torygraph

It doesn't even make a pretence at being anything other than right-wing. I believe it endorsed Dubya back in November.

[LeftishBrit]

8. Yes, definitely right-wing

The most right-wing of the broadsheets, though perhaps less so than the Daily Hate and other tabloids. They used to have pretty good news reporting, if you skipped the disgusting editorials; but their reporting is also becoming increasingly biased IMO.

[T_i_B]

10. If you want bad reporting,

then read The Times. For a broadsheet the reporting in The Times is pretty dire I find.

The Telegraph, despite being a RW rag does have plenty of good stories I find, although not so much on the comment pages (although I'd still rather read Boris than most of the Times commentators).

[Anarcho-Socialist]

11. Yes, it's a dirt rag

Most of the major circulated 'news'papers in the UK are right-wing.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Except the Guardian, I suppose? (nt)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

15. UK national newspapers' alignments are approximately this...

Right Wing: Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun, The Express, The Times, News of the World, The People

Left Wing: The Guardian, Daily Mirror

Non-aligned: The Independent (has a mix of socialists, liberals and conservatives who write editorials)

[T_i_B]

16. The Independents reporting...

in my experience does tend to be left of centre. Just look at the cover stories for starters!

Andwe should not forget the likes of the Times, the Evening Standard and the FT which are right of centre but support Blair.

[TyeDye75]

12. The News of the World is a RW rag

they even gave William Hague his own page

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Shameless plug for the Demopedia page

on the English national newspapers. If anyone feels like extending it to the Scottish papers, so that it lives up to the 'British' title, please do. And it's got the classic joke definitions at the end :-)

[tjwmason]

18. I love the final sentence regarding 'The Sun'

"Its only redeeming feature is a talent for puns in its headlines."

They can be wicked, but wickedly funny too.