I love the idea that the original newspapers/pamphlets were targetted at Edmund Blackadder. It would be a real treat to hear him snarkily rip apart the announcements from the current government.
I have a cunning plan, I read the French an German Press. I learn more about Britain and its news from Le Monde and Die Zeit than any British newspaper, . Some one said I was lucky' as if they came by Osmosis. No idea I might have had to learn them, but a French Education was a help. To read a Tabloid was a disgrace at school. A Newspaper monsieur is a civil instrument not an amusement arcade.
The best way to judge if a paper is right wing or not is to see the headline on its front page. Most of the print media in the UK are obsessed with the Royal Family, yet cannot comment about the dire financial state of the country, its people and its infrastructure. If Labour manage to win the next general election, these same papers will be spouting on and on about the subjects it ducked away from.
Ah, so just like Republicans raving about the national debt and state of the economy while Dems are in power, but then become oddly quiet when they get in power? Seems to be a universal rule across all right-wing parties and organisations.
Current immigration figures and trends are making Brits poorer. "Right leaning" media highlight the mass uncontrolled immigration that's driving down wages, job availability, inflating housing costs and putting pressure i.e. decreasing quality of public services. Polling suggests immigration is consistently high on people's concerns
A good comment. I guess it's all a feedback loop, but to the extent that the press downplay problems when we have a Tory government and play them up when it's Labour, maybe that's a reason why so many conservative voters remain convinced for ever that you can't trust any Labour government with the economy.
@nikobellic570 no it isn't. Conservative voters maybe. But the Economy, NHS, a well ahead of concerns for the majority. The so-called "immigration crisis" is 100% created by the Tories as a distraction technic. They do it all the time, instead of running the country. Before about 2020 there was hardly any boat migrant issue. We are no longer part of the EU returns agreement, for one. That was torpedoed by the Tories for their "Brexit purity" project. So, no, most people want these Tories OUT and are not conned by their manufactured "immigration crisis". The vast majority of which is official, VISA driven, work migration. We are a rich enough country to afford to build houses, hospitals, pay doctors, nurses, have decent public services and transport....instead of lining Tories and their donors' pockets with our tax money - off-shored to the Cayman Islands, of course.
They're owned by rich people who prefer lower taxation. Newspapers as a medium are read by older people who tend to be more right-wing on social issues. If you're trying to influence politics, targeting older readers is a good strategy because they're also much more likley to vote. Also, in the UK about 75% of people get their news from the BBC which incentivises the newspapers to lean into opinion (which the BBC isn't allowed to do).
What lean into opinion? What incentive? And BBC is left wing. They have a long history of being fair. But then they went silly like the rest of the world.
@@georgesdelatour the guardian is centre left, look how their columnists went after Corbyn who I would say is the traditional working class left. You can see the difference with outlets like Political Joe being more to the left of them
Oh you naive sweet child. The BBC is bias(s)ed, cause it is a public broadcaster, meaning it is controlled by the government and works as the government mouthpiece. Haven't you noticed anything at all during the last few years? The BBC are statist and will only promote the narrative tm, period.
I grew up in America thinking our media was bad, but the internet has exposed me to the truth. The absolute worst, most sensational, pointless, inaccurate headlines all come from British publications. They make us look sane.
rich people own stuff, rich people like less tax, rich people hire journalist who agree with him, journalist releases things that allign with them. Hope that helps.
The did cover it, just not in the way that they can be made to sound evil for it. So its not getting the same screaming. Unless there is a fake "Bloodbath" then no one is interested.
@@fanban2926 If she justs reads whatever, then it is totally on her. Is she anchorwoman, the next Ron Burgundy? Or was she taken over by Joe Biden's roving spirit?
The FT - centrist; pro-Rejoin. The Guardian - leftist, pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin. The Independent - leftist, pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin. The Mirror - centre-left, pro-Labour. The Telegraph - rightist, but currently offering less than full support to the Conservatives. Its columnists are split on the EU, with a slight majority supporting our departure from the EU. The Times - centrist, but currently pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin. I don’t read the tabloids, but I realise they are generally more populist and right-wing. It’s important to understand that culturally things have moved to the left on many issues. The opinions of the average Labour voter in 1945 would probably be considered Far Right today.
Culturally yes we have become more progressive but economically speaking the country is much more to the right today than it was then. The state had a larger role in society and owned key sectors and had significant assets on its books, taxation was significantly higher on those with high levels of income/wealth and workers were much for effectively able to organise (usually via unions) to improve their working conditions or pay inline with productivity gains. The media is often less about where it positions itself on issues and more about the issues in chooses to discuss ie focus on social/cultural change rather than economic change.
@@tbatallen It’s complicated. Government spending is currently 45% of GDP - which is the highest it’s ever been in peacetime. Taxes are also relatively high by historic standards. This is a problem for any UK government, because next door there’s a country called Ireland, where government spending is only 25% of GDP and corporate taxes are the second lowest in Europe. It’s one reason companies like Apple prefer to invest in Ireland than the UK. Many social conservatives would support re-nationalisation of key utilities such as the railways. Many leftists think it’s not worth the effort to nationalise industries when regulation can achieve most of the same objectives.
@@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp This is actually what Johnson promised (but didn't deliver) in 2019. The policy mix is basically French Gaullism. The UK's tiny SDP advocates this mix, but they're nowhere electorally.
@@OnlineEnglish-wl5rphow the hell is being "right wing on social issues" good for working people? How is being against gay marriage helping working people?
For a lot of countries. Those who are richer are more likely to be right wing so more likely to finance a right leaning news source. That’s why a lot of media ends up being right wing. I’m thankful that the BBC is pretty centrist. Right wingers complain about it being too left wing and left wingers complain about it being too right wing. I feel like it’s doing something right if that’s the outcome.
"Those who are richer are more likely to be right wing so more likely to finance a right leaning news source." That used to be true, but times are changing. Nowadays the divide is between well educated and not so well educated. The well educated are left wing, and the not so well educated are right wing. It's not a completely clear divide, there are plenty of rich educated people who vote Tory out of selfishness and plenty of not so well educated poor people who vote Labour because it doesn't require much education to see that the Tories have trashed the country. However the Tory vote is increasingly an alliance between the extremely rich, who benefit from Tory policies, and the poor but badly informed who are worse off from Tory policies. Constituencies where a high proportion of people have university education are turning away from the Tories.
@@JohnSmall314 used to be true because it was good for business, now it's not because the freer the market the weaker the monopoly and stake you can have in the government
@@JohnSmall314 - this isn't a new divide. Wealthy people are a minority by default; they can't win elections with their votes alone anywhere. They have to convince poor people to vote against their own interests, and there are two great tools to make them do so: media and religion.
@@gdf_6cthats just a conception you’ve developed in your own head and is very reasonable. But I doubt you’ve ever socialized with any real right wing working class. They are not stupid. Which is what you are implying though you would deny it.
I'm getting incredibly skeptical about the framing of this video from just the statistics alone. 26% of Brits think their media is too right-wing, yet the video frames the whole thing as if 100% of their traditional media is? What does this imply? That 76% of brits are right-wing? Or that it's only a (still sizeable) minority of their media that is? Something doesn't add up, and I find it rather conspicuous that the video frames right-wing as bad. Ffs, they used the term bourgeoisie which is a Marxist term. I'd be extremely surprised if the old upper classes actually referred themselves as such.
100% spot on here This is probably the most left leaning biased video they've produced. It was always obvious what political views this channel would have, but they're clearly trying to message: Right wing = bad
I don't read The Times newspaper, but at least as far as their online presence goes, I rarely see a report that could be characterised as clearly right wing. Talk TV and Radio also has some seriously left of centre voices, and even the Daily Mail is significantly less right wing than it was several years ago. While print media could perhaps still be characterised as being weighted towards the right of centre, the opposite must be said of non-print media outlets, of which only GB News is clearly and consistently right of centre. In toto, it is difficult to make an objective case that the UK news scene has a serious right wing bias.
Pretty sure this is more about where your Overton window lies. Seems to be shifted to the right. There's a whole lotta left that you don't appear to know exists.
@@ChrispyNut Lol, and there's a whole lot of right you don't seem to understand exists. For example people like you characterise "wanting slighlty low but still 10x higher than it was 30 years ago" immigration as "far right", meanwhile no voices are allowed in the media that simply want to end immigration. Similarly the most far left extremists, i.e. Ash "I'm literally a communist" Sarkar is invited to appear on mainstream broadcast media, while no one to the right of Nigel Farage (a pretty basic Thatcherite conservative) is ever allowed to appear on British television. The idea that there would ever be someone saying "I'm literally a fascist" during a British TV panel is obviously ridiculous, and clearly shows that the Overton Window is set far to the left, not right. The TORY government literally spend money on trying to stop "far right extremism", and publicly attacks "right wing extremists", while saying nothing about the far left, and in fact using government funding to finance left wing groups that attack its own policies. The idea that the Overton Windows in the UK is somehow to the right is preposterous.
Yeah, independent is mixed factuality on the left now supposedly. Went from high factuality. Wonder why it's regressed in how factual it is, as for the mirror, they're always mixed factuality however also on the left. / lean left
Probably because no one knows about the Mirror and the Independent is not "left wing". It is about as centrist as it gets. I am more curious as to why she didn't include the BBC on the right wing list.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 Fair point about the Indy, I suppose, but no-one knows about The Mirror? Seriously? Its circulation is more than twice that of the Guardian. The BBC thing always makes me chuckle, though, because left-wingers always accuse it of right-wing bias and right-wingers always accuse it of left-wing bias.
@@PaulNizinskyj The BBC pretends to be what the right-wingers call "woke" (whatever that might be). Since the right-wingers don't understand what "the left" is really about, they assume this must be it and blame the BBC for being "leftist". Meanwhile the actual leftists look at the BBC falling over themselves to cover for the Tories and attacking Labour at every opportunity and say, "well, actually..."
There’s something dubious about analysing the 2016 Referendum but not the 1975 one. In 1975, the only newspaper which opposed UK membership of the EEC was the Communist Morning Star. That should also make clear that being pro-or-anti the EEC/EU is not a straightforwardly left-right issue.
Yep never has been. The labour movement was always skeptical about what it saw as a bosses' union - see Tony Benn and Peter Shore. It only changed its mind after Thatcher pole-axed the trade unions and they scratched around for institutional support from the continent. Plus of course many of the unions are corrupt and for that reason they said nothing when the Troika inflicted savage cuts on Greece
not really, the left-right divide as it exists today is fundamentally different from 1975. Its a left-right issue in our period and it would actually be much more dubious to include that example without historical context.
@@lt2660 So Arthur Scargill supporting Leave means he's suddenly right wing? Leave could only win the Referendum in 2016 because old-fashioned Tony Benn supporting lifelong Labour voters felt free to vote that way.
because communists during the cold war in the west were generally defined moreso by geopolitical alignment moreso than economic ideology, and communists in europe and the US were generally staunchly against political cooperations that went against the soviet union and communist china. its this geopolitical alignment that is a big part why socialists and communists dont really get along, and why communists as a political alignment nowadays are referred to as tankies because its a very accurate descriptor of their true beliefs. its intellectually dishonest to use the example of a single communist newspaper 50 years ago as proof that anti-EU talking points arent firmly right-wing talking points nowadays.
@@georgesdelatour I never said that there was no leftist brexiteers or right wing remainers. It is a left-right issue broadly, but obviously the left and right are not homogenous blocs that all think the same thing. You knew what i meant and decided to do a silly nitpick, get real.
the BBC only looks "leftwing" because of the deranged nature of the press in general by comparison. The BBC for instance is nothing like the classic stalwart of "leftwing press" the Guardian in it's positions and editoral lines. It's "centrist" aka whatever the status quo/official story says.
Rubbish, the Neo-liberal corporate media is not left wing, the many times I have seen BBC platform the opinions of RW politicians and their supporters be given a say, along with other RW opinions platformed on prime-time mainstream Neo-liberal media, while the so called left either get a very short sound bite, usually taken out of context, or no replay to accusations at all.
It's not. People on social media/TLDR are on average much further left wing than the general UK population. Everything seems right by comparison. It's like a Londoner vs a Highlanders definition of what 'The North' is. It's all relative.
05:07 How do you say _"Get off my lawn! I HATE myself!"_ in only whiny headlines? Rupert's got you covered. _"I'm sorry ma'am.... it's as we feared. I'm afraid you've got Ruperts. Twelve of them. We can take you into surgery this afternoon."_
So when are the BBC or channel 4 hiring a trans weather girl then? They have not been left for a couple of decades now, about as "left" as Piers Morgan or JK Rowling.
@@problemaslaptopread how they bent over for Muslims after the attack in Sri Lanka. Islamophobia is the greatest threat in the UK and the world acc to the BBC.
A pretty misleading title. “Why is the Uk Press So Right-Wing?” would have been more accurate, both in terms of describing the article and the country.
Brexit was not a right-wing/left-wing issue. You can find articles on Socialist Worker supporting leave whereas the Conservative Party's official position was remain. Arguably the most right wing government we've ever had (Thatcher) ratified UK membership of the single market. It was successive right-wing and left-wing governments that took the UK deeper into the EU while the opposition to this has always come from across the political spectrum. To use who supported which side of the Brexit debate as a proxy for right-wing/left wing is misleading.
@@museli_addict Wait, who a media organisation provides a platform to indicates their bias? Wow, they're all tied into knots then, cos they platform most of the spectrum.
The comment section will be interesting. It'll be a hard pill to swallow for right wingers to realize that large swaths of the media are actually conservative. Kind of kills the victim vibe of "evil liberal media'.
That's because you don't understand that "conservative" and "liberal" are interchangeable. The Tories are Right wing on economics precisely because they are economic liberals. Economic liberals believe that "the market" should determine what happens in the economy - largely because they are the biggest players in that market.
Is it? Right wingers complain it’s too left wing and left wingers complain it’s too right wing which means it’s probably about correct however the standard of journalism is on the floor
You could make the same points about a lot of countries, really. Like, France has exactly one leftwing daily newspaper, two if we’re generous, and 80% of its media is owned by 9 billionaire families. The financing system of the media favors ownership by very rich people, and those very rich people are obviously not gonna support policies that threaten their interests. Though admittedly, UK seems to be one of the most… aggressive about it.
BBC, Channel 4? Noticed you missed them out. Most of the BBC personalities are hopelessly progressive. How about Sky News in the UK, which is also left wing
BBC, and Sky News are not Progressive (at all} and the BBC is getting worse, and closer each day to the far right. You people need to get rid of Murdoch.
Media must always be neutral and never take any sides, it's their duty to report news as it is without any twists. Also media must always speak against injustices and governments must always ensure media can work without any fear or favour.
I slightly disagree, media should always be objective rather than neutral. If one person says 2+2=4 and the another says 2+2=5, the neutral position is merely to state what each person said, the objective position is to say the first one is correct and the second is wrong. For the past few decades right wingers have basically said nothing but lies and falsehoods, by staying neutral and not calling out right wingers it has given them undue credibility allowing people to believe half truths which are lies. Now in fairness left wingers sometimes lie as well (usually it’s the actual communists rather than progressives/socialists) but the media will always point that out, something they do not do with the lies of the right wingers, hence why people say media has a right wing bias.
That’s like a child’s definition. And then life hits. It’s not like that at all. Nowadays, literally, the more you try to read about some news, the more misinformed you become. Better to not read the news in any depth.
@@Thought_Processing_ To me, all your comment says is "I support the left". Take an issue like COVID. In the early days of the pandemic we were told that the idea the virus could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan was an insane conspiracy theory. Now it seems to be 50-50 that it really did come from a lab engaged in gain-of-function research. The advice on the efficacy of masks went from telling people they shouldn't wear them to telling people they had to wear them...
@@georgesdelatourit was new back then, it's stupid to blame people for changing after they gathered more information. It shouldn't even been a political topic at all. But it you want to make it political: anti vax people kept saying millions who got vaccinated will die while the one who didn't get vaccinated survive. Later there was the conspiracy theory that non vaccinated people get killed off because they got targeted, like as if it wasn't just the vaccines working and the unvaccinated obviously dying at a higher right.
British media is like British social mobility. nothing will change until someone educates those on the bottom to the same level as those on the top. But that wont happen unless a political need arises.
Media reform to ensure plurality of opinion and limiting electoral interference by the press (telling, campaigning or heavily implying who to vote for) will do WONDERS for this country's politics and quality of life. Civil servants are in perdour at least during elections, so I don't see why the far more influential press couldn't be similarly regulated. Prince Harry is a hero.
It comes down to TH-camrs not having a lot of sponsors so they take the same bad ones over and over Weird how no one so far made a Video on how bad YT Sponsors in general are
Not really, those who would use ground news are inclined to still watch TLDR, if TLDR published more videos daily, than there might be some competition, but one or two videos a day, ground news is unlikely to have much effect on their viewer base (also one, or more of the people that work at TLDR, as I understand it, also work for Ground News)
The Guardian/Observer. Whose main frontline opinion writers past and present, include Jonathan Freedland, Nick Cohen, Suzanne Moore, Sonia Sodha, Hadley Freeman, and Simon Jenkins. Somehow these are left wing newspapers.
We really need to pass a law prohibiting anyone from owning more than one major newspaper, or anyone who isn't both a British citizen and pays tax in the UK (none of them do) from owning any newspapers at all. Insane that the labour party never tries this!
Because some of the newspaper are owned by Rupert Murdoch and with spectator and the telegraph up for sale murdoch could have a monopoly over this newspaper industry
Rupert Murdoch is a well-known republican. He’s very anti-Monarchy. The fact he can slip this opinion into his otherwise right-of-centre papers might even make it more effective than if the Guardian or Independent publishes a straightforward anti-Monarchist editorial.
@@georgesdelatour Delusional fantasies. 1) Murdoch is Australian 2) Even then, he is more of an egotist, promoting stuff that helps him and publishing crap that sells, he got no conservative leanings or principles at all. 3) There is no way at all that he gets a monopoly. 4) Today there are lots of alternatives, many people are now aware of these manipulations and will abandon publications or channels quickly.
Hmm I assumed the media is right wing because Brits are generally more conservative. I believe during most elections it votes Tory. Oddly Canada seems to vote mostly liberal which is our centrist party.
We do not. Most usually vote left [of Tories], but there's typically several parties there, so the vote gets split and the Tories take the victory. This election there's potentially a split on the right, which could be devastating for the Tory party.
@@ChrispyNut Yeah the Tories are so successful at elections mostly because the left vote is split across several parties whilst the Tories dominate almost entirely the right wing vote save for a few elections where a far right party starts getting attention.
@@lucasdolding6924 No, I'd say it's mostly because of the media. Soo many people believe untruths, because that's what they've read, heard, seen. Whether it's smears against opposition, representation of facts that lead to false conclusions being drawn by the reader or just flat out lies. There is a strong percentage of people who're right-wing minded, out for themselves at the expense of whoever they can rip off, that's fair enough, but so many who're left-minded believe Tories would represent their interests.
Agree with people's individual policy rather than their party line. I liked Corbyn's socialist view that being in the EU was bad because cheap labour could freely move in from less developed nations, thus suppressing the native wage for any manual work. more hands makes light work and light work pays like trash. very luddite of him. But being for Brexit was a far right position? nonsense.
A lot comment section is dangerously misinformed. In terms of news media the biggest publications in England are right leaning. I think a lot of people read the word media and think Entertainment media which tends to be left leaning. At the same time the UK in general is more left leaning than the US which causes a lot of confusion.
@@taha_boy Uhm? Yes. A positions of left wing from decade-two ago would be deemed "transphobic" by modern left. By using this term you are showing far the left has gone...
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Would not call either Politico or the Guardian left wing now. They're non sensationalist, but still very much centrist and status quo/conservative politically.
Exactly. That from the nativist radical-right center-right and centrist neo-liberal press looks left-wing, doesn't mean they are. These are the same people who think Emmanual Macron, Joe Biden and the pope are leftists. If you actual simply count how often they feature opinions and voices of CEOs vs unions, men vs women, people in power vs activists for change, industrialists vs environmentalists, it turns out time and time again even media that are perceived as more progressive/leftists favour the powers that be.
It's the same in Canada for news print media. 90% of what's left of our dailies are owned by Post Media which also owns the National Post and is, in turn, owned (via majority stake) by an American hedge fund with ties to conservative political causes and campaigns. The Globe and Mail is centre-right, Post media owns almost all of the "Sun" tabloid papers, all right. The Toronto Star, which used to be one of Canada's most leftist papers, was bought two conservative investors back in 2020. The more conservative partner sold off his share to the centre-right partner not too long after. It's remained tepidly leftist.
This video could have been much better if it analysed the bias of UK media. As much as this is factual*, it’s very agenda based for a TLDR video even if unintentionally.
It's funny the left thing mainstream media is too right wing but the right think mainstream media is to left wing. Much like the left thing alternative media is more left but the right think it's more right.
The vast amount of their news coverage, especially at national level is pro-democrat. I guess a more accurate take would be they are anti trump aligned republicanism rather than left wing
@@dannyarcher6370 politico was a newspaper on capitol hill and it featured republicans more than the other two papers. It was looking for readers who tended right or wanted news from the Republican caucus.
As a Scot, I feel that the title is a bit inaccurate. This is really about the English press rather than that here. Not that that isn't interesting, just a slightly misleading title.
From another post which I would agree with, this does not seem to be true: The FT - centrist; pro-Rejoin. The Guardian - leftist, pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin. The Independent - leftist, pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin. The Mirror - centre-left, pro-Labour. The Telegraph - rightist, but currently offering less than full support to the Conservatives. Its columnists are split on the EU, with a slight majority supporting our departure from the EU. The Times - centrist, but currently pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin. And Brexit is not destroying the British economy. That is a left wing trope. Mass migration is damaging all European countries socially and culturally. The EU was just about OK when it was the EEC and was just about mutual trade. Once it became the EU it started down the route of a superstate in the making, it has lost a lot of popular backing. Strange that the left is so behind the EU now, as it was opposed for a long time by the left as a right wing business organization. Hence the EU is always pushing for removing national borders under the Schengen agreement, and encouraging mass 3rd world migration to get cheap labour across Europe. Switzerland and Norway have done fine outside the EU. The European commission is not elected - and it decides what laws are proposed to the EU Parliament. See this recent quote: "European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will soon put forward a common strategy for the EU's defence industry, designed to strengthen military production and arms supply". She is not elected either.
1) The Times is not "right-wing." _Maybe_ 30 years ago. Today they're certainly liberal. But just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right. 2) "This report was brought to you by Ground News." Well, it advertises here, yes. But if I were them I wouldn't like the sound of that. They have a reputation to guard. 3) Thank you, young lady, for using the word _bourgeois_ without arching one eyebrow or inflecting your voice with any trace of irony. Few things if any could be more revealing. 4) Most shocking of all, Rupert Murdoch was good-looking as he neared age 40.😄
It looks like this video talks only about newspapers, whether print or online. To claim that the British media overall is right-wing, as the title suggests, is a rather unfunny joke. If other media are included, British media can be said to range from center-left to far-left. For example, the BBC is certainly a left-wing news source, and so is TLDR News, if we're at it.
It depends what side you’re on. If you’re left it feels like the media is mostly right wing. If you’re right wing it feels like the media are mostly left wing. It’s definitely not as right wing as this video makes it out to be.
The media most uk humans access is TV not papers. Why are papers right wing is a fair question. They didn't use to be. Mirror was highest circulation paper till middle 70s when uk public realised those policies were wrong / changed their position. TV people actually watch, apart from channel 4 which is openly left wing biased, is socially liberal bias but pretty good at being left right balanced. "I don't like the fact individuals choose to voluntarily buy a newspaper I don't agree with" isn't proof of systematic bias in media.
As someone who hasn't grown up in the UK, the media here doesn't seem too biased. While papers like the Guardian and The Telegraph are more "obviously" leaning towards a certain side, I appreciate papers like The Times that seem to be quite factual and less opinionated about their content.
And the Guardian, Independent and Observer. Plus all the local newspapers owned by the Reach Group. Plus regional newspapers such as the Scotsman. Not even a passing mention of left-of-centre broadcasters like Channel 4 and the BBC. A very misleading video.
0:21 Lol Finland at the second place. Our media is inverse to the UK media. Except for that there are no right-leaning alternatives existing. Iltalehti maybe, but to be honest, calling it right-leaning is a big stretch. That statistic isn't reliable for measuring, how right-wing media landscape is in a country.
The well funded authoritarian right are very good at appealing to the working class using the lowest common denominator, gadfly media on a grass roots level, using easily digestible lies, appeals to base emotions and nationalism, over truth rationality and facts many with short attention spans relate to their anti-intellectual bias and fearmongering, tough talk,most media corporations being capitalists go with the if you cant beat em join em mantra.
I love the idea that the original newspapers/pamphlets were targetted at Edmund Blackadder. It would be a real treat to hear him snarkily rip apart the announcements from the current government.
I have a cunning plan, I read the French an German Press. I learn more about Britain and its news from Le Monde and Die Zeit than any British newspaper, . Some one said I was lucky' as if they came by Osmosis. No idea I might have had to learn them, but a French Education was a help. To read a Tabloid was a disgrace at school. A Newspaper monsieur is a civil instrument not an amusement arcade.
The best way to judge if a paper is right wing or not is to see the headline on its front page. Most of the print media in the UK are obsessed with the Royal Family, yet cannot comment about the dire financial state of the country, its people and its infrastructure. If Labour manage to win the next general election, these same papers will be spouting on and on about the subjects it ducked away from.
Ah, so just like Republicans raving about the national debt and state of the economy while Dems are in power, but then become oddly quiet when they get in power? Seems to be a universal rule across all right-wing parties and organisations.
Current immigration figures and trends are making Brits poorer. "Right leaning" media highlight the mass uncontrolled immigration that's driving down wages, job availability, inflating housing costs and putting pressure i.e. decreasing quality of public services. Polling suggests immigration is consistently high on people's concerns
A good comment. I guess it's all a feedback loop, but to the extent that the press downplay problems when we have a Tory government and play them up when it's Labour, maybe that's a reason why so many conservative voters remain convinced for ever that you can't trust any Labour government with the economy.
@nikobellic570 no it isn't. Conservative voters maybe. But the Economy, NHS, a well ahead of concerns for the majority. The so-called "immigration crisis" is 100% created by the Tories as a distraction technic. They do it all the time, instead of running the country. Before about 2020 there was hardly any boat migrant issue. We are no longer part of the EU returns agreement, for one. That was torpedoed by the Tories for their "Brexit purity" project. So, no, most people want these Tories OUT and are not conned by their manufactured "immigration crisis". The vast majority of which is official, VISA driven, work migration. We are a rich enough country to afford to build houses, hospitals, pay doctors, nurses, have decent public services and transport....instead of lining Tories and their donors' pockets with our tax money - off-shored to the Cayman Islands, of course.
If Labour manage to win then people, and women in particular, may be spouting about Starmer's failure to understand what a woman is, don't you think?
They're owned by rich people who prefer lower taxation. Newspapers as a medium are read by older people who tend to be more right-wing on social issues. If you're trying to influence politics, targeting older readers is a good strategy because they're also much more likley to vote. Also, in the UK about 75% of people get their news from the BBC which incentivises the newspapers to lean into opinion (which the BBC isn't allowed to do).
What lean into opinion? What incentive? And BBC is left wing. They have a long history of being fair. But then they went silly like the rest of the world.
That doesn't quite explain why there's no big alternatives tho
Bill Gates part funds the Guardian through donations.
@@georgesdelatour the guardian is centre left, look how their columnists went after Corbyn who I would say is the traditional working class left. You can see the difference with outlets like Political Joe being more to the left of them
Oh you naive sweet child.
The BBC is bias(s)ed, cause it is a public broadcaster, meaning it is controlled by the government and works as the government mouthpiece. Haven't you noticed anything at all during the last few years? The BBC are statist and will only promote the narrative tm, period.
I grew up in America thinking our media was bad, but the internet has exposed me to the truth. The absolute worst, most sensational, pointless, inaccurate headlines all come from British publications. They make us look sane.
rich people own stuff, rich people like less tax, rich people hire journalist who agree with him, journalist releases things that allign with them. Hope that helps.
Cool it with the antisemetic remarks
That doesn’t work in the US though. All the rich news outlets say “tax the rich” but don’t actually want to
@@Weavileiscool are all those news outlets here in the room with us right now?
@@Weavileiscool buddy don't try bringing up reality in an argument around here
Poor people pay lots of tax, they pay council tax, income tax, fuel duty and vat etc. Everyone is affected by taxes
7:36 Right-wing media not covering the TikTok bill? That sounds rather hard to believe.
The did cover it, just not in the way that they can be made to sound evil for it. So its not getting the same screaming. Unless there is a fake "Bloodbath" then no one is interested.
As someone who follows "right wing" media - I can confirm this is BS.
This is georgina's first video about UK things
She's very good, I'm impressed.
Ah, that explains the complete lack of any relation with reality... She got no clue.
@@donaldduck830I don't think it makes much difference who reads the script, that's not on her.
@@fanban2926 If she justs reads whatever, then it is totally on her.
Is she anchorwoman, the next Ron Burgundy? Or was she taken over by Joe Biden's roving spirit?
Classic conservative moment. Someone's got to keep mysogeny alive I suppose.
The FT - centrist; pro-Rejoin.
The Guardian - leftist, pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin.
The Independent - leftist, pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin.
The Mirror - centre-left, pro-Labour.
The Telegraph - rightist, but currently offering less than full support to the Conservatives. Its columnists are split on the EU, with a slight majority supporting our departure from the EU.
The Times - centrist, but currently pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin.
I don’t read the tabloids, but I realise they are generally more populist and right-wing.
It’s important to understand that culturally things have moved to the left on many issues. The opinions of the average Labour voter in 1945 would probably be considered Far Right today.
Culturally yes we have become more progressive but economically speaking the country is much more to the right today than it was then. The state had a larger role in society and owned key sectors and had significant assets on its books, taxation was significantly higher on those with high levels of income/wealth and workers were much for effectively able to organise (usually via unions) to improve their working conditions or pay inline with productivity gains.
The media is often less about where it positions itself on issues and more about the issues in chooses to discuss ie focus on social/cultural change rather than economic change.
@@tbatallen It's almost as if Right wing on social issues, Left wing on economics issues are what's best for working class people
@@tbatallen It’s complicated. Government spending is currently 45% of GDP - which is the highest it’s ever been in peacetime. Taxes are also relatively high by historic standards. This is a problem for any UK government, because next door there’s a country called Ireland, where government spending is only 25% of GDP and corporate taxes are the second lowest in Europe. It’s one reason companies like Apple prefer to invest in Ireland than the UK. Many social conservatives would support re-nationalisation of key utilities such as the railways. Many leftists think it’s not worth the effort to nationalise industries when regulation can achieve most of the same objectives.
@@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp This is actually what Johnson promised (but didn't deliver) in 2019. The policy mix is basically French Gaullism. The UK's tiny SDP advocates this mix, but they're nowhere electorally.
@@OnlineEnglish-wl5rphow the hell is being "right wing on social issues" good for working people? How is being against gay marriage helping working people?
The funny thing is you can't even rely on the guardian to back the Labour party in elections half the time
The Labour Party could try being worthy of support.
@@patrickcrosby6219 Their opponent is the Tories. It's not an issue of Labour's value, even the Guardian isn't interested in reason.
@@zUJ7EjVDneither is labour tho.
I remember when THE GUARDIAN insisted that the Reagan presidency had been "benign"...
@@patrickcrosby6219I'm interested if this is a criticism of Labour from the right or the left?
Idk, but it might have something to with the political ideology of letting rich people do whatever they want.
They might be right wing for British standard. Which would be left-wing for European standard.
For a lot of countries. Those who are richer are more likely to be right wing so more likely to finance a right leaning news source. That’s why a lot of media ends up being right wing.
I’m thankful that the BBC is pretty centrist. Right wingers complain about it being too left wing and left wingers complain about it being too right wing. I feel like it’s doing something right if that’s the outcome.
"Those who are richer are more likely to be right wing so more likely to finance a right leaning news source."
That used to be true, but times are changing. Nowadays the divide is between well educated and not so well educated. The well educated are left wing, and the not so well educated are right wing. It's not a completely clear divide, there are plenty of rich educated people who vote Tory out of selfishness and plenty of not so well educated poor people who vote Labour because it doesn't require much education to see that the Tories have trashed the country.
However the Tory vote is increasingly an alliance between the extremely rich, who benefit from Tory policies, and the poor but badly informed who are worse off from Tory policies.
Constituencies where a high proportion of people have university education are turning away from the Tories.
@@JohnSmall314 used to be true because it was good for business, now it's not because the freer the market the weaker the monopoly and stake you can have in the government
@@JohnSmall314 - this isn't a new divide. Wealthy people are a minority by default; they can't win elections with their votes alone anywhere. They have to convince poor people to vote against their own interests, and there are two great tools to make them do so: media and religion.
Centrist means leftest nowadays. They have succeeded in moving the line.
@@gdf_6cthats just a conception you’ve developed in your own head and is very reasonable. But I doubt you’ve ever socialized with any real right wing working class. They are not stupid. Which is what you are implying though you would deny it.
I'm getting incredibly skeptical about the framing of this video from just the statistics alone.
26% of Brits think their media is too right-wing, yet the video frames the whole thing as if 100% of their traditional media is? What does this imply? That 76% of brits are right-wing? Or that it's only a (still sizeable) minority of their media that is? Something doesn't add up, and I find it rather conspicuous that the video frames right-wing as bad. Ffs, they used the term bourgeoisie which is a Marxist term. I'd be extremely surprised if the old upper classes actually referred themselves as such.
So this would Indicate that 74% Think that their Media is too Far Left which is worse…
Acting like 100% of Brits have complete media literacy or care about the partisan bias of the media is insane.
100% spot on here
This is probably the most left leaning biased video they've produced.
It was always obvious what political views this channel would have, but they're clearly trying to message: Right wing = bad
Bad video based on a false premise
Disagree I think its quite mixed the big three tv channels BBC ITV and Channel 4 are quite left wing on social issues
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@@rachejohnson5427 average reform voter
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@rachejohnson5427mate what
I don't read The Times newspaper, but at least as far as their online presence goes, I rarely see a report that could be characterised as clearly right wing. Talk TV and Radio also has some seriously left of centre voices, and even the Daily Mail is significantly less right wing than it was several years ago. While print media could perhaps still be characterised as being weighted towards the right of centre, the opposite must be said of non-print media outlets, of which only GB News is clearly and consistently right of centre.
In toto, it is difficult to make an objective case that the UK news scene has a serious right wing bias.
100%, everyone knows that ofcom (aka Tony Blair) represses GB news with an iron fist. Yet the media is apparently right wing
Pretty sure this is more about where your Overton window lies. Seems to be shifted to the right. There's a whole lotta left that you don't appear to know exists.
Yup it's left wing nut jobs seeing the right everywhere they look
@@ChrispyNut Lol, and there's a whole lot of right you don't seem to understand exists. For example people like you characterise "wanting slighlty low but still 10x higher than it was 30 years ago" immigration as "far right", meanwhile no voices are allowed in the media that simply want to end immigration. Similarly the most far left extremists, i.e. Ash "I'm literally a communist" Sarkar is invited to appear on mainstream broadcast media, while no one to the right of Nigel Farage (a pretty basic Thatcherite conservative) is ever allowed to appear on British television. The idea that there would ever be someone saying "I'm literally a fascist" during a British TV panel is obviously ridiculous, and clearly shows that the Overton Window is set far to the left, not right.
The TORY government literally spend money on trying to stop "far right extremism", and publicly attacks "right wing extremists", while saying nothing about the far left, and in fact using government funding to finance left wing groups that attack its own policies. The idea that the Overton Windows in the UK is somehow to the right is preposterous.
Half the daily mail employees are Tories
By American standards, all UK media is hopelessly left-wing.
How come you didn't list The Mirror and The Independent under 'LEFT' on your thumbnail? That seems rather misleading.
Yeah, independent is mixed factuality on the left now supposedly. Went from high factuality. Wonder why it's regressed in how factual it is, as for the mirror, they're always mixed factuality however also on the left. / lean left
Probably because no one knows about the Mirror and the Independent is not "left wing". It is about as centrist as it gets.
I am more curious as to why she didn't include the BBC on the right wing list.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 BBC pro left, pro diversity. Pro open borders, pro LGBTQ....left. Left. Left.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 Fair point about the Indy, I suppose, but no-one knows about The Mirror? Seriously? Its circulation is more than twice that of the Guardian. The BBC thing always makes me chuckle, though, because left-wingers always accuse it of right-wing bias and right-wingers always accuse it of left-wing bias.
@@PaulNizinskyj The BBC pretends to be what the right-wingers call "woke" (whatever that might be). Since the right-wingers don't understand what "the left" is really about, they assume this must be it and blame the BBC for being "leftist".
Meanwhile the actual leftists look at the BBC falling over themselves to cover for the Tories and attacking Labour at every opportunity and say, "well, actually..."
There’s something dubious about analysing the 2016 Referendum but not the 1975 one. In 1975, the only newspaper which opposed UK membership of the EEC was the Communist Morning Star. That should also make clear that being pro-or-anti the EEC/EU is not a straightforwardly left-right issue.
Yep never has been. The labour movement was always skeptical about what it saw as a bosses' union - see Tony Benn and Peter Shore. It only changed its mind after Thatcher pole-axed the trade unions and they scratched around for institutional support from the continent. Plus of course many of the unions are corrupt and for that reason they said nothing when the Troika inflicted savage cuts on Greece
not really, the left-right divide as it exists today is fundamentally different from 1975. Its a left-right issue in our period and it would actually be much more dubious to include that example without historical context.
@@lt2660 So Arthur Scargill supporting Leave means he's suddenly right wing? Leave could only win the Referendum in 2016 because old-fashioned Tony Benn supporting lifelong Labour voters felt free to vote that way.
because communists during the cold war in the west were generally defined moreso by geopolitical alignment moreso than economic ideology, and communists in europe and the US were generally staunchly against political cooperations that went against the soviet union and communist china.
its this geopolitical alignment that is a big part why socialists and communists dont really get along, and why communists as a political alignment nowadays are referred to as tankies because its a very accurate descriptor of their true beliefs.
its intellectually dishonest to use the example of a single communist newspaper 50 years ago as proof that anti-EU talking points arent firmly right-wing talking points nowadays.
@@georgesdelatour I never said that there was no leftist brexiteers or right wing remainers. It is a left-right issue broadly, but obviously the left and right are not homogenous blocs that all think the same thing. You knew what i meant and decided to do a silly nitpick, get real.
I feel this video tells us more about the political bias of TLDR than it does about MSM.
Anyone else waited for the Ground News ad?
(looks at title of video) Apparently, TLDR has never heard of the BBC
the BBC only looks "leftwing" because of the deranged nature of the press in general by comparison. The BBC for instance is nothing like the classic stalwart of "leftwing press" the Guardian in it's positions and editoral lines. It's "centrist" aka whatever the status quo/official story says.
TLDR News is left-wing, so thy have significant blind spots as well.
I mean they do lean right at times. Kussenberg in particular.
Television and radio is overwhelming left wing. To say "UK Media" as a while is right wing is nonsense.
Rubbish, the Neo-liberal corporate media is not left wing, the many times I have seen BBC platform the opinions of RW politicians and their supporters be given a say, along with other RW opinions platformed on prime-time mainstream Neo-liberal media, while the so called left either get a very short sound bite, usually taken out of context, or no replay to accusations at all.
It's not. People on social media/TLDR are on average much further left wing than the general UK population. Everything seems right by comparison. It's like a Londoner vs a Highlanders definition of what 'The North' is. It's all relative.
TLDR actually has a video about the team taking different political tests
UK media is right leaning!? What??? 😂😂😂
Yup it is . Denial doesn't make that go away.
Real
@@DavisJ-ln6fwno it isn't. You false facts don't change your bull shit
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I used to sometimes view Times Radio videos but 1 phrase keeps coming to mind with them: wishful thinking.
05:07 How do you say _"Get off my lawn! I HATE myself!"_ in only whiny headlines?
Rupert's got you covered. _"I'm sorry ma'am.... it's as we feared. I'm afraid you've got Ruperts. Twelve of them. We can take you into surgery this afternoon."_
If you're going to include a TV channel (GB News) in the right-wing box, you *must* include the massive BBC in the left-wing box.
How is the BBC left wing? Genuine question
So when are the BBC or channel 4 hiring a trans weather girl then? They have not been left for a couple of decades now, about as "left" as Piers Morgan or JK Rowling.
@@sophiepooks2174when did hiring trans become code for lw lol? Where's the Guardians's trans editor then? Lmao
@@problemaslaptopread how they bent over for Muslims after the attack in Sri Lanka. Islamophobia is the greatest threat in the UK and the world acc to the BBC.
Forget how ancient UK tabloids are and how the right wing tabloids are run by Rupert Murdoch
A pretty misleading title.
“Why is the Uk Press So Right-Wing?” would have been more accurate, both in terms of describing the article and the country.
Yay a new person 😊 nice to have a bit more verity. Love tldr
Brexit was not a right-wing/left-wing issue. You can find articles on Socialist Worker supporting leave whereas the Conservative Party's official position was remain. Arguably the most right wing government we've ever had (Thatcher) ratified UK membership of the single market. It was successive right-wing and left-wing governments that took the UK deeper into the EU while the opposition to this has always come from across the political spectrum. To use who supported which side of the Brexit debate as a proxy for right-wing/left wing is misleading.
The fact that something like The Guardian is actually considered "Left-Wing" in UK says alot
Platforming self proclaimed "socialists" such as Owen Jones should be an indicator that it is
@@museli_addict Wait, who a media organisation provides a platform to indicates their bias? Wow, they're all tied into knots then, cos they platform most of the spectrum.
Yes, The Guardian is Far Left. It’s about as culturally liberal as it gets.
The fact that you've got a literal hammer and sickle as your profile picture says a lot
@@qlder0284 Yeah lol.
The Guardian is centrist at best; not very critical at all of imperial core countries.
because they all mouthpieces of tory next question lmao
ok
Nice try, SKY was sold to NBC before 2020, and that same owner is also the largest fiber optic provider in the Northeast.
They shit on the government more than left wing media tho obviously you haven't watched them at all😂
What a silly comment
The Tories aren't right-wing, though....
The comment section will be interesting. It'll be a hard pill to swallow for right wingers to realize that large swaths of the media are actually conservative. Kind of kills the victim vibe of "evil liberal media'.
That's because you don't understand that "conservative" and "liberal" are interchangeable. The Tories are Right wing on economics precisely because they are economic liberals. Economic liberals believe that "the market" should determine what happens in the economy - largely because they are the biggest players in that market.
Is it? Right wingers complain it’s too left wing and left wingers complain it’s too right wing which means it’s probably about correct however the standard of journalism is on the floor
You could make the same points about a lot of countries, really. Like, France has exactly one leftwing daily newspaper, two if we’re generous, and 80% of its media is owned by 9 billionaire families.
The financing system of the media favors ownership by very rich people, and those very rich people are obviously not gonna support policies that threaten their interests. Though admittedly, UK seems to be one of the most… aggressive about it.
This excludes the broadcast media, which is the other way around if anything. 🤷
4 centrists, 1 gb news
BBC, Channel 4? Noticed you missed them out. Most of the BBC personalities are hopelessly progressive. How about Sky News in the UK, which is also left wing
There is no true left wing MSM in the UK. You’re referring to what is either largely unbiased or centre right media.
BBC, and Sky News are not Progressive (at all} and the BBC is getting worse, and closer each day to the far right. You people need to get rid of Murdoch.
@@lolosity314 tories will say anything that doesn't agree with them is far left
Media must always be neutral and never take any sides, it's their duty to report news as it is without any twists. Also media must always speak against injustices and governments must always ensure media can work without any fear or favour.
I slightly disagree, media should always be objective rather than neutral. If one person says 2+2=4 and the another says 2+2=5, the neutral position is merely to state what each person said, the objective position is to say the first one is correct and the second is wrong.
For the past few decades right wingers have basically said nothing but lies and falsehoods, by staying neutral and not calling out right wingers it has given them undue credibility allowing people to believe half truths which are lies.
Now in fairness left wingers sometimes lie as well (usually it’s the actual communists rather than progressives/socialists) but the media will always point that out, something they do not do with the lies of the right wingers, hence why people say media has a right wing bias.
In an ideal world, but when the Tories are wholly owned by their right-wing media billionaire benefactors then the rsult is what we are now seeing...
That’s like a child’s definition. And then life hits. It’s not like that at all. Nowadays, literally, the more you try to read about some news, the more misinformed you become. Better to not read the news in any depth.
@@Thought_Processing_ To me, all your comment says is "I support the left". Take an issue like COVID. In the early days of the pandemic we were told that the idea the virus could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan was an insane conspiracy theory. Now it seems to be 50-50 that it really did come from a lab engaged in gain-of-function research. The advice on the efficacy of masks went from telling people they shouldn't wear them to telling people they had to wear them...
@@georgesdelatourit was new back then, it's stupid to blame people for changing after they gathered more information. It shouldn't even been a political topic at all.
But it you want to make it political: anti vax people kept saying millions who got vaccinated will die while the one who didn't get vaccinated survive. Later there was the conspiracy theory that non vaccinated people get killed off because they got targeted, like as if it wasn't just the vaccines working and the unvaccinated obviously dying at a higher right.
Why is TLDR so far left
British media is like British social mobility. nothing will change until someone educates those on the bottom to the same level as those on the top. But that wont happen unless a political need arises.
Media reform to ensure plurality of opinion and limiting electoral interference by the press (telling, campaigning or heavily implying who to vote for) will do WONDERS for this country's politics and quality of life. Civil servants are in perdour at least during elections, so I don't see why the far more influential press couldn't be similarly regulated. Prince Harry is a hero.
Long story short, Rupert Murdoch.
What's up with a news channel being sponsored by ground news, they're your competitiors
Bro just learned about “competitors” in business class
@eca3101 nah I'd sooner die than tale a business class, MBAs are the spawn of Satan
It comes down to TH-camrs not having a lot of sponsors so they take the same bad ones over and over
Weird how no one so far made a Video on how bad YT Sponsors in general are
Not really, those who would use ground news are inclined to still watch TLDR, if TLDR published more videos daily, than there might be some competition, but one or two videos a day, ground news is unlikely to have much effect on their viewer base
(also one, or more of the people that work at TLDR, as I understand it, also work for Ground News)
The Guardian/Observer. Whose main frontline opinion writers past and present, include Jonathan Freedland, Nick Cohen, Suzanne Moore, Sonia Sodha, Hadley Freeman, and Simon Jenkins. Somehow these are left wing newspapers.
We really need to pass a law prohibiting anyone from owning more than one major newspaper, or anyone who isn't both a British citizen and pays tax in the UK (none of them do) from owning any newspapers at all.
Insane that the labour party never tries this!
I would have thought more centrist, though actual right wing media in the US paints then as left wing.
Neo-liberal, liberal corporate elites still right leaning more than center, but still left of Mussolini.
Bro you are left wing
I’m calling bias on this video. Name one profitable left wing media outlet. If right wing media wasn’t profitable you wouldn’t see any of it.
(Most right wing papers have been making losses for the last few years, especially the Mail and Sun)
Because some of the newspaper are owned by Rupert Murdoch and with spectator and the telegraph up for sale murdoch could have a monopoly over this newspaper industry
Rupert Murdoch is a well-known republican. He’s very anti-Monarchy. The fact he can slip this opinion into his otherwise right-of-centre papers might even make it more effective than if the Guardian or Independent publishes a straightforward anti-Monarchist editorial.
@@georgesdelatour Delusional fantasies.
1) Murdoch is Australian
2) Even then, he is more of an egotist, promoting stuff that helps him and publishing crap that sells, he got no conservative leanings or principles at all.
3) There is no way at all that he gets a monopoly.
4) Today there are lots of alternatives, many people are now aware of these manipulations and will abandon publications or channels quickly.
@@donaldduck830 Murdoch became a US citizen in 1985.
Still would not be a monopoly as that other lords owns a fair few
It's not just Murdoch, it's billionaires/oligarchs in general.
Tabloids and newspapers do have an older reading base, though. Older people lean more right-wing, so it actually makes sense.
1:03 is that a medieval Mr Bean?
Hmm I assumed the media is right wing because Brits are generally more conservative. I believe during most elections it votes Tory. Oddly Canada seems to vote mostly liberal which is our centrist party.
We do not. Most usually vote left [of Tories], but there's typically several parties there, so the vote gets split and the Tories take the victory.
This election there's potentially a split on the right, which could be devastating for the Tory party.
@@ChrispyNut Yeah the Tories are so successful at elections mostly because the left vote is split across several parties whilst the Tories dominate almost entirely the right wing vote save for a few elections where a far right party starts getting attention.
@@lucasdolding6924 No, I'd say it's mostly because of the media. Soo many people believe untruths, because that's what they've read, heard, seen. Whether it's smears against opposition, representation of facts that lead to false conclusions being drawn by the reader or just flat out lies.
There is a strong percentage of people who're right-wing minded, out for themselves at the expense of whoever they can rip off, that's fair enough, but so many who're left-minded believe Tories would represent their interests.
Here in Scotland we are what others down south would consider “woke”.
@@OtakuLogan2017 Dafuq? Noooo! Someone was having a laugh with you, mate.
Being woke requires consciousness, y'all are too drunk too often to count.
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Why is the premise of this video so divorced from reality?
I think discussions such as who is left, right, far left and far right further amplify the problem and are not productive at all.
Agree with people's individual policy rather than their party line. I liked Corbyn's socialist view that being in the EU was bad because cheap labour could freely move in from less developed nations, thus suppressing the native wage for any manual work. more hands makes light work and light work pays like trash. very luddite of him. But being for Brexit was a far right position? nonsense.
A lot comment section is dangerously misinformed. In terms of news media the biggest publications in England are right leaning. I think a lot of people read the word media and think Entertainment media which tends to be left leaning. At the same time the UK in general is more left leaning than the US which causes a lot of confusion.
Surprisingly no mention of the "Page 3" girls.
Calling any of these right wing is hilarious. Centre right at most. Goes to show just how left wing the overton window is in the UK.
In a country that openly spouts transphobic and anti-immigrant rhetoric, you claim that the Overton window is towards the left?
@@taha_boy Uhm? Yes. A positions of left wing from decade-two ago would be deemed "transphobic" by modern left. By using this term you are showing far the left has gone...
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Would not call either Politico or the Guardian left wing now. They're non sensationalist, but still very much centrist and status quo/conservative politically.
Exactly. That from the nativist radical-right center-right and centrist neo-liberal press looks left-wing, doesn't mean they are. These are the same people who think Emmanual Macron, Joe Biden and the pope are leftists. If you actual simply count how often they feature opinions and voices of CEOs vs unions, men vs women, people in power vs activists for change, industrialists vs environmentalists, it turns out time and time again even media that are perceived as more progressive/leftists favour the powers that be.
Guardian and politico is a far left media mate. Piss off with your piss take lol
Guardian is very left leaning
Politico has a bit of both
L take
Lol
Are we just gonna ignore the big elephant in the room, the BBC?
does the uk print newspapers
It's owned by a bunch of people that are right wing millionaires
The mirror and new statesman isn't on that image. There is lots of left wing media
Many left wing outlets not on that image
I finally got used to the new presenter. She's a good listen
I'm not quite there yet, not quite natural enough but she will get there.
@@R1chardH completely fair, it's up to everybody to judge this for themselves
It's the same in Canada for news print media. 90% of what's left of our dailies are owned by Post Media which also owns the National Post and is, in turn, owned (via majority stake) by an American hedge fund with ties to conservative political causes and campaigns. The Globe and Mail is centre-right, Post media owns almost all of the "Sun" tabloid papers, all right. The Toronto Star, which used to be one of Canada's most leftist papers, was bought two conservative investors back in 2020. The more conservative partner sold off his share to the centre-right partner not too long after. It's remained tepidly leftist.
Bbc is not right wing
This video could have been much better if it analysed the bias of UK media. As much as this is factual*, it’s very agenda based for a TLDR video even if unintentionally.
Answer to the title in 1 word: capitalism
It's funny the left thing mainstream media is too right wing but the right think mainstream media is to left wing. Much like the left thing alternative media is more left but the right think it's more right.
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those are all words alright
They're not. They reflect the views of their owners and donors. If that's right, left or tyrannical, then that's the media's view.
It must be a troll. UK media is mostly left wing, sometimes far left(and some are centre/centre right).
they are not right wing wtf
As an American, I'm surprised that Politico is considered on the left.
Really? They cover for biden and lie about trump at every opportunity.
The vast amount of their news coverage, especially at national level is pro-democrat. I guess a more accurate take would be they are anti trump aligned republicanism rather than left wing
A lot of its articles and “Fact Checks” have been favorable to democrats in recent years, that’s probably why.
Why? I watch right-wing Yank content, and the perception is the same on those shows.
@@dannyarcher6370 politico was a newspaper on capitol hill and it featured republicans more than the other two papers. It was looking for readers who tended right or wanted news from the Republican caucus.
As a Scot, I feel that the title is a bit inaccurate. This is really about the English press rather than that here. Not that that isn't interesting, just a slightly misleading title.
rare tldr news L
Why lol
As my Grandmother said "it pays to Hate"
your State literally has laws against "hate" lmao
Your grandmother was likely a very rich lady.
Where's the hate? Having standards isn't 'hate'
If I were British then I would avoid these publications since they spearheaded the BREXIT push. And that is destroying the British economy.
From another post which I would agree with, this does not seem to be true:
The FT - centrist; pro-Rejoin.
The Guardian - leftist, pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin.
The Independent - leftist, pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin.
The Mirror - centre-left, pro-Labour.
The Telegraph - rightist, but currently offering less than full support to the Conservatives. Its columnists are split on the EU, with a slight majority supporting our departure from the EU.
The Times - centrist, but currently pro-Labour; pro-Rejoin.
And Brexit is not destroying the British economy. That is a left wing trope. Mass migration is damaging all European countries socially and culturally. The EU was just about OK when it was the EEC and was just about mutual trade. Once it became the EU it started down the route of a superstate in the making, it has lost a lot of popular backing. Strange that the left is so behind the EU now, as it was opposed for a long time by the left as a right wing business organization. Hence the EU is always pushing for removing national borders under the Schengen agreement, and encouraging mass 3rd world migration to get cheap labour across Europe. Switzerland and Norway have done fine outside the EU. The European commission is not elected - and it decides what laws are proposed to the EU Parliament. See this recent quote: "European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will soon put forward a common strategy for the EU's defence industry, designed to strengthen military production and arms supply". She is not elected either.
Politico left wing? What planet are TLDR on?
1) The Times is not "right-wing." _Maybe_ 30 years ago. Today they're certainly liberal. But just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right.
2) "This report was brought to you by Ground News." Well, it advertises here, yes. But if I were them I wouldn't like the sound of that. They have a reputation to guard.
3) Thank you, young lady, for using the word _bourgeois_ without arching one eyebrow or inflecting your voice with any trace of irony. Few things if any could be more revealing.
4) Most shocking of all, Rupert Murdoch was good-looking as he neared age 40.😄
@@themonninen In the 19th century it was. Things have changed.
Excellent video, thank you.
It’s not “apparently right wing”, it is.
There are plenty of leftie publications out there.. too many!!.
It looks like this video talks only about newspapers, whether print or online. To claim that the British media overall is right-wing, as the title suggests, is a rather unfunny joke. If other media are included, British media can be said to range from center-left to far-left. For example, the BBC is certainly a left-wing news source, and so is TLDR News, if we're at it.
The number of outlets isn't as important as the size of the readership. Market share determines the medias overall bias direction.
Great video guys 👍
It depends what side you’re on. If you’re left it feels like the media is mostly right wing. If you’re right wing it feels like the media are mostly left wing. It’s definitely not as right wing as this video makes it out to be.
going to go with the eventual answer to almost everything... Capitalism. And conservatism
Fuck me, you just solved all the worlds problems.
I hope you do one on why US media is so left wing.
Funny I keep hearing complaints about left wing bias.
The media most uk humans access is TV not papers.
Why are papers right wing is a fair question. They didn't use to be. Mirror was highest circulation paper till middle 70s when uk public realised those policies were wrong / changed their position.
TV people actually watch, apart from channel 4 which is openly left wing biased, is socially liberal bias but pretty good at being left right balanced.
"I don't like the fact individuals choose to voluntarily buy a newspaper I don't agree with" isn't proof of systematic bias in media.
Totally agree. This video title is pretty misleading because of that
Wait... the British media is right wing??
4:02
Can his name be more British?!
As someone who hasn't grown up in the UK, the media here doesn't seem too biased. While papers like the Guardian and The Telegraph are more "obviously" leaning towards a certain side, I appreciate papers like The Times that seem to be quite factual and less opinionated about their content.
funny joke
if you think UK media is biased, wait until you see US media
Oh first time I hear her!.
So good
You missed out the Daily Mirror, who owns it, and it's political affiliation.
And the Guardian, Independent and Observer. Plus all the local newspapers owned by the Reach Group. Plus regional newspapers such as the Scotsman. Not even a passing mention of left-of-centre broadcasters like Channel 4 and the BBC. A very misleading video.
0:21 Lol Finland at the second place. Our media is inverse to the UK media. Except for that there are no right-leaning alternatives existing. Iltalehti maybe, but to be honest, calling it right-leaning is a big stretch.
That statistic isn't reliable for measuring, how right-wing media landscape is in a country.
Thanks
Why are the US, EU, and UK Media So Right-Wing? Follow the money.
The well funded authoritarian right are very good at appealing to the working class using the lowest common denominator, gadfly media on a grass roots level, using easily digestible lies, appeals to base emotions and nationalism, over truth rationality and facts many with short attention spans relate to their anti-intellectual bias and fearmongering, tough talk,most media corporations being capitalists go with the if you cant beat em join em mantra.
You surely have your wings in the wrong positions..?