{"id":520646,"date":"2010-04-08T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=16015"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:31:30","slug":"uk%e2%80%99s-papers-get-politically-%e2%80%9cpunchy%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520646","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s Papers get Politically \u201cPunchy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>The election campaign for the British parliament (and\u00a0more importantly Prime Minister) kicked off this week. If you really want to get a feel for\u00a0politics not-so-refined English-style\u00a0go no further than the opinionated British newspapers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With any attempt at \u201cFair and Balanced\u201d cast to the wind, the papers wear their allegiance right on the front pages, with incumbent Labour party PM Gordon Brown getting the worst of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrown\u2019s a Clown\u201d screams The Sun\u2019s front page today.\u00a0 \u201cBrown at War with (business) Bosses\u201d chides the Telegraph.\u00a0 While the Daily Mail decries \u201cLabour\u2019s Betrayal of British Workers.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Conservative and favored PM challenger David Cameron gets roughed up a bit by left-leaning papers like The Guardian and The Independent but not with quite the gusto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does have an effect,\u201d London School of Economics political science professor Patrick Dunleavy told Fox News, \u201cIt sets the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still Dunleavy goes on to note that most of the newspapers are simply \u201creinforcing the prejudices\u201d of their readers and with circulations slipping do not effect the outcome of elections here as much as they used to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Besides he notes, \u201cPeople read The Sun for the sports, not the politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaining in importance this election, the internet, blogs, social network sites and for the first time, televised debates.\u00a0\u00a0 Still, all the main TV networks, like clockwork every night, haul out the next day\u2019s papers and go through the front pages as if they are the journalist\u2019s bible.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That way even if you don\u2019t buy a paper you can find out that PM Brown is \u201cIlliterate when it comes to Business\u201d as yet another headline screamed today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let the slinging match begin!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election campaign for the British parliament (and\u00a0more importantly Prime Minister) kicked off this week. If you really want to get a feel for\u00a0politics not-so-refined English-style\u00a0go no further than the opinionated British newspapers.\u00a0 With any attempt at \u201cFair and Balanced\u201d cast to the wind, the papers wear their allegiance right on the front pages, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}