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*PREVIEW* Britainology 67: British Tabloids feat. Alan White

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Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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For this month's first Britainology, we speak with journalist Alan White (@aljwhite) of Politics Home about the strange and sordid history of Britain's tabloid press--how it never seems to change (culturally or otherwise), how it keeps getting away with things, how different its affect is from that of (equally omerta-driven) British television... and most importantly, how weird it is. Get the whole thing on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/britainology-67-87494316 *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

The Telegraph, it just sort of feels like a newspaper that's written with like an audience in mind of like Mr. Burns, effectively.

0:06.5

Like it's not like a, like whereas like if you're like fairly conservative, you could read like the Times and be sort of happily consuming your news in a way where it's like, oh, this seems like the news, but it's not really challenging my world view.

0:17.8

Am I misremembering that I seem to recall?

0:20.0

Is it David Aronovich is at the Telegraph of the Times?

0:22.1

Is he the Times? And Melanie Griffiths is at the Times, too. Or Melanie Phillips, he always mix

0:26.0

them up. Melanie Phillips is at the times too. And so it's like, that's the thing that I make the

0:29.7

joke sometimes, that it can seem like silly headlines or obvious just like outrage of the week

0:34.5

to rile up the British voter, British reader, but then also periodically

0:38.5

some actual like exterminate the brutes, cut down the tallteries, kind of like unsubtle messaging

0:43.3

in the op-eds. And it's like to me that feels like a very, the Times energy, whereas the

0:47.3

telegraph ridiculous more than anything else?

0:49.9

Yeah, yeah. A lot of like, why do my children hate me? And the price of clarity is so uncompetitive.

0:55.2

But the ones, the really absurd ones are obviously going to be, to my as like the Daily Mail and the Sun and what is it?

1:03.4

I mean, obviously the mirror is not as right wing, but can still be ridiculous.

1:08.1

So you've got the mirror, the Sun, the male, the express, the star.

1:12.6

God, the Express.

1:13.4

And you could include the Sunday Sport, but I don't know if.

1:16.6

Sunday Sport is fake, but plausible sometimes.

1:20.3

Yeah, it's essentially fake, but I mean, it's...

1:22.9

We should talk about this because we've got basically there are like, as you say,

1:26.3

I'd actually had missed off the Express express the newspaper that will never forget Diana still

1:32.6

flying the flag yeah obviously the Sun the Daily Mail the Daily Mirror which is

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