IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

TORY

Socialist Challenge No. 90, 5 April 1979 · p. 5 of the scan · 309 words

The scan: sc-n90-apr-5-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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The political spectrum of the national press reaches HER ZIES the word right-wing rightwards.

No Fleet Street paper, for example, came anywhere near Mr to supporting the manifesto on could be mistaken for Margaret Thatcher's personal fan mail.

Yet the fact that Murdoch's paper has achieved such a high working class readership popularising the politics reaction is itself a reflection of Labour government's Press freedom in Britain is virtually a monopoly of one and as the present struggle at Times Newspapers even that -can of suspended when it comes to confronting the printworkers.

Street will need to invest f20m to convert to new technology, which means - as Now its 4m plus daily copies | John Whale, a leader writer on / of the working class. Do you buy a newspaper from these multinationals?

UK publishing interests Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, 3 provincial daily/Sunday papers, 9 local weeklies, 175 magazines. Aggregate circulation Financial Times, 12 provincial dailies, 111 local weeklies, large no. of magazines. Aggregate circulation of newspapers 2.4 m.

The Times, Sunday Times, 15 provincial daily/Sunday papers, 37 local weeklies, 46 magazines Aggregate circulation over 6 m.

Sun, News of the World, 2 provincial Daily/Sunday papers, 24 local weeklies, 3 magazines. Aggregate circulation 9.2 m.

Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, 1 London evening, 3 local weeklies. Aggregate circulation 6.4 m.

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