Mr Evans 'Perhaps you forgot about The Sun, The Times, Daily Express and Daily Mail as well as the Telegraph'. Whenever this point is made I always think that if so many more of these papers are bought or read on line than those with a different perspective, perhaps it is because their opinions represent more closely the majority views of the general public. It does not make the opinions maliciously wrong or biased nor the readership. Just different. In the case of the Guardian, I am not saying the topics are not important and sometimes newsworthy, but perhaps its tediously predictable spouting and promotion of racism, disability and gender opinion, sometimes in the context of intersectionality, puts people off and keeps its sales low. But then this does not matter as it is funded by a Trust whose wealth ironically came from slave trading ! 'The extensive academic research summarised above makes clear that John Edward Taylor, our founding editor, and most of the backers who helped fund the Manchester Guardian had links to transatlantic slavery.' - 28 March 2023. It is certainly true that no one else seems to think there is a bigger prospective readership such that would it worthwhile publishing an equivalent tabloid. But you have also forgotten the Daily Mirror which is Labour supporting, and it is a tired cliché to say the Times is Conservative biased. Its news reporting to me appears as unbiased as one would expect from any serious news media and it gives Comment space to a pretty wide range of opinion. If those of a leftist view don't like 'the right wing press' they can either crowd fund the setting up of media supporting a 'left wing one' or turn to online leftist media such as the Novara Media - 'a platform for left-wing politics, culture and media'. Seems there's plenty of media outlets to echo everyone's point of view !

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Comedy gold	13/04/24 15:10:00	Richard Carter
Re:Comedy gold - not so much	14/04/24 10:14:00	Nicholas Evans
Re:Re:Comedy gold - not so much	14/04/24 11:45:00	John Hawkes
Reply	14/04/24 12:09:00	Nicholas Evans
Re:Reply	14/04/24 13:46:00	John Hawkes
Re:Re:Comedy gold - not so much	14/04/24 13:01:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Comedy gold	14/04/24 11:12:00	John Hawkes
Re:Comedy gold	14/04/24 15:54:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Comedy gold	14/04/24 16:55:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	14/04/24 20:02:00	Freddie Francis
Reply	14/04/24 20:22:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	14/04/24 21:21:00	Freddie Francis
Reply	14/04/24 21:30:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	14/04/24 22:05:00	Steven Rose
Reply	14/04/24 22:29:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	15/04/24 10:28:00	John Hawkes
Reply	15/04/24 11:13:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	15/04/24 10:26:00	John Hawkes
Reply	15/04/24 11:29:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	15/04/24 09:59:00	John Hawkes
Re:Re:Comedy gold	14/04/24 22:48:00	Richard Carter
Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 10:19:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 12:38:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 15:46:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 16:21:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 16:36:00	Richard Carter
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 17:31:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 17:41:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 18:42:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 19:47:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	15/04/24 20:57:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	16/04/24 09:35:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold	16/04/24 10:24:00	John Hawkes
Reply	16/04/24 12:26:00	Michael Ixer
Reply	16/04/24 13:08:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	17/04/24 15:46:00	Philippa Bond

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