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What would social media be without print media? Really empty. Countless websites would be rendered worthless if they weren't ripping off the print media world. Print media has similar problems to the music world: how to make people pay for the product they're viewing. The Grauniad approach of free access has left them staring into the financial abysss, hence the current begging campaign for members to join for £5 a month. The Telegraph had a disaster with Jason Seiken coming in. The Sun tried the paywall and then dropped it and are now putting their hopes on a financial revival through Sun Bets.
There are still plenty of people who want quality articles. Post-referendum, the Times lowered its paywall. When they put it back up again, it triggered a big spike in people taking out subscriptions. It's been mooted within News UK that this could be a model for the future, periodically lowering the paywall to get some people into the website and to see if another spike in subs occurs.
By 2020 at this same increasing rate of readership drop off it may be less than 1%. There's no guarantee any of those 1% will vote, or vote the way Murdoch wants...
Print media's affect on the vote is dying...
Sky News on the other hand... Or the various other Murdoch empire stuff...
Apparently he plans to outline his policy of "removing tax relief for drugs research from pharmaceutical companies". Presumably he thinks we can just replace their work with homeopathy (something he believes in).
Of course this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Owen Smith used to work for Pfizer.
Sky News has clearly moved to a more hardline typical Murdoch stance since the election. The launch of their QT-style show was a pointed indicator of that. It'll be interesting to see what happens with Fox now Roger Ailes has been launched off.
Sales might be waning but we're not in some kind of age of enlightenment, but I've seen no change in the opinions of the people I've worked with over the last 35 years.
http://www.metroclassified.co.uk/productsandaudiences/esdatadistribution
Now if the LES can claim readership that is close to double its circulation despite being a geographically-specific publication of limited availability elsewhere in the country, then I reckon the Sun could easily claim a readership double that of the circulation. With circulation of around 1.75 million, readership could be estimated at 3.5 million. 46 million eligible voters at the last election, turnout of 66% meaning about 31 million voted. So a Sun readership of 3.5 million represents 11.2% of the 2015 General Election turnout. This goes back to what I said earlier now we have a political system that isn't just two party: there are fights for smaller and smaller scraps and percentages. That newspaper vote is smaller than previous but still no less important.
At a time when the U.K is massively under investing in new pharmaceutical research, this is dangerous not only for his own stupid self but also the future health of the country. This, combined with the threat to phone his chief whip's father for disagreeing, has really opened my eyes to just how pathetic Corbyn and his staff are.
I watched the Vice documentary on Corbyn from the end of May and it's clear even then how much he loves the attention and the stardom. For someone that's self-styled as planning to alter British politics, his two "radical" policies at his leadersip launch were recycled from Miliband and New Labour respectively. What his acolytes see in him as a man and a leader, I genuinely don't know.
It was clear that the govt couldn't "farm out" 100 times the whole budget of the medical research council, so Corbyn looked like an ill-informed idiot again. "Private is bad public is good". Apparently that's not what Corbyn meant when he said
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jul/21/jeremy-corbyn-campaign-labour-leader-theresa-may-paris-politics-live?page=with:block-5790c804e4b0b9abc191632c#block-5790c804e4b0b9abc191632c
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-mcdonnell-backtracks-jeremy-corbyns-8483352
The problem now is that there's no new opposition party to rise up and replace Labour the way Labour did the Liberals.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
we decided this, the dems
There are Afghan ones too… worth a shot? They've reformed.
http://theafghanwhigs.com
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Greg Dulli for PM? I don't know anything about him really, but I'd sooner vote for him than Corbyn.