Does it matter who owns our news?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
With The Telegraph newspaper up for sale we are asking a wider question about who owns our news.
Does it matter if foreign parties have a stake ? Does it matter if foreign governments do? And can an owner remain truly impartial when their business depends upon it?
We discuss the intersection between politics, newspaper coverage and big money.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Rory Symon & Shane Fennelly
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | We're going to start today's episode with a question, and the question is this. |
| 0:18.5 | Does it matter who owns our news? And the reason that we're posting the |
| 0:24.4 | question is because one of our most established broadsheet newspapers is currently up for sale. |
| 0:31.7 | It's the telegraph and there is an absolute cap fight over what happens to it now. |
| 0:40.4 | Will it go to foreign owners in Abu Dhabi? |
| 0:43.6 | Will it be bought by an American like Murdoch? |
| 0:45.7 | Will it stay in British hands? |
| 0:49.2 | And will any of that alter the kind of news it does, the editorial slant it takes, |
| 0:51.4 | or the politics that come to dominate in this country next. |
| 0:56.3 | The Telegraph has an unusual place in British politics. They used to call it the in-house |
| 1:02.1 | Bible of the Conservative Party in the country. Therefore, who owns it probably really does |
| 1:07.8 | matter. This is a story that could and probably will affect our politics, |
| 1:12.5 | the way media is done in this country, and also tells us something about the way that |
| 1:17.0 | Middle Eastern money is coming to dominate around the world all before it. |
| 1:21.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:26.4 | The newsagents. It's Lewis. It's Emily. Over the past few days, there have been |
| 1:32.8 | louder and louder voices raising concerns within government, former ministers, |
| 1:39.6 | and former editors about what will happen to the Telegraph newspaper. |
| 1:46.5 | And before we go on, we should possibly explain that the reason there is so much interest |
| 1:52.9 | in what happens to the sale of the Telegraph newspaper is because some of those interests |
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