Election ’24: How will the press handle Keir Starmer?

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

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Newspapers aren’t as powerful as they were, but they still behave as if they are – and they remain overwhelmingly biased towards a Tory Party that could well be dying. How will they handle a new Labour government? Are the days of press power over? And where does the new power lie? Gavin Esler asks Goldsmiths Senior Journalism Lecturer Terry Kirby in The Bunker. Buy The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund The Bunker by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. We are streaming LIVE on election night! Come and join your favourite panellists from Oh God, What Now?, The Bunker and Paper Cuts on YouTube from 10pm on Thursday 4th July as we react to the results live – you won't want to miss it. Visit https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow and subscribe now. • We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. • Incogni keeps your private information safe, protects you from identity theft and keeps your data from being sold. There’s a special offer for This Is Not A Drill listeners – Go to Incogni.com/thebunker to get an exclusive 60% off your annual plan. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Produced by Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Art by James Parrett. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Gavin Esler. As readers of British newspapers over the years may have noticed,
0:15.0	it's not too fanciful to suggest that the UK's right-wing press seems to have lost its way.
0:21.0	They certainly have lost sales. Have they also lost influence? In May 2024, Press Gazette showed
0:27.8	significant drops in readership across the most popular titles. The Express
0:31.6	down 17% on a year, the Daily Mail down 11%, the Mail on Sunday
0:36.4	down 17%. Perhaps even more significantly, the report said, the above figures do not include the Sun, Times and Telegraph,
0:46.0	titles which have all chosen to keep their ABC
0:49.2	Circulations private since the start of 2020. Why could that be? Embarrassing drops in sales figures
0:56.4	may be the answer although Kieer Starmer and a labor government may offer more opportunities
1:01.4	for traditional tabloid vitriol or could there be an accommodation
1:05.9	with stammer and an uneasy truce at least for a while and whisper it could a major
1:11.0	newspaper even switch to supporting Nigel Farage and reform?
1:16.2	For some perspective on this, I'm delighted to be joined by Terry Kirby, Senior Lecturer
1:20.3	and Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London,
1:23.0	and the author of The Newsmongers,
1:25.0	a history of tabloid journalism.
1:27.0	Welcome to the bunker Terry.
1:28.0	It's so great to be here, Galvin.
1:30.0	Let's begin with the kind of obvious,
1:32.0	are we clear that a right-wing press does exist in this country,
1:35.1	not all of the papers of course, but that they do dominate tabloid culture, traditionally supporting the
1:40.6	Conservatives?
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