The influence of News Corp is overstated – and politicians need to revamp their tactics and schmoozing accordingly‘What are you going to do about the Sun?” It was the first question Neil Kinnock asked, when a bunch of eager young political advisers setting up a now long-forgotten campaign for Britain to join the single currency begged his advice. By then an EU commissioner, Kinnock had never forgotten the paper’s devastating 1992 front page asking the last person left in Britain to turn out the lights if Labour won. But for decades now, his question has haunted the liberal left.The Murdoch press has earned a fearsome reputation among progressives as a kind of giant toad squatting in the road, blocking the way to everything from higher taxes to gay rights and, above all, closer relations with Europe. Few did more to pave the way for Brexit than the immigrant-bashing, Brussels-baiting Sun, whose once cheeky Euroscepticism had descended by 2015 to the nadir of a Katie Hopkins column describing migrants drowning at sea as cockroaches. “Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in the water … I still don’t care,” she wrote. Across the Atlantic, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel offered a similarly shrill platform for the angry, increasingly paranoid voices who would propel Donald Trump to power. Though he eventually came to regret enabling Trump, when the 92-year-old Murdoch finally relinquished the reins of his empire to his son Lachlan last week, it was with one... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2023-09-24 07:32:16 UTC ]
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I remember the first time I met Courtney Maum. It was nearly ten years ago, a spring or maybe summer day in Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens. We were both in our twenties, no books published yet, just a few free essays here and there, just starting our writing careers with the fierce intensity of Jack... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-07-18 08:52:29 UTC ]
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Patrick Radden Keefe's essays reflect this unsettling era of mass shootings and terrorism, unaddressed mental health issues and many types of financial corruption. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-07-08 12:00:55 UTC ]
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Rafael Agustin dishes about "Illegally Yours," his candid new memoir about a childhood without documents, and the TV pilot that never made it. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-07-07 13:00:42 UTC ]
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Remember that exhausting parade of Trump insiders and ex-staffers getting book deals for dishy tell-alls? Turns out no one’s really interested in reading them. Politico went digging around NPD Bookscan (which reflects about 70 percent of sales) to get the receipts: The Chief’s Chief [by former... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-06-24 12:44:43 UTC ]
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With the newspaper’s founder and senior editors jailed, other pro-democracy media outlets shut and 1,000 journalists out of work, can press freedom survive in the territory?Read more: ‘My career is finished, my friends are in prison and I’m an alien in my city’: life after Hong Kong’s Apple... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-06-24 05:01:07 UTC ]
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Kathleen Buhle’s memoir, "If We Break," reveals the details of a marriage the author once called "special." Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-06-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In 2014, book critic Dwight Garner published a lament in the New York Times for a seemingly forgotten literary masterpiece, the oral history All God’s Dangers. Published in 1974 by then-Harvard doctoral candidate Theodore Rosengarten, the autobiography was narrated by Nate Shaw, an illiterate... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-06-06 08:51:52 UTC ]
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James Campbell’s memoir "Just Go Down to the Road" captures an era and how it shaped the author’s eventual literary career. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-05-18 12:00:46 UTC ]
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Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel ‘The Lioness’ takes readers on a posh African safari that turns terrifying. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-05-11 12:00:26 UTC ]
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Lizz Huerta didn't get an MFA, but she did get an education while working on construction sites. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-05-05 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Shelby Van Pelt's novel joins the menagerie of books told from an animal's perspective. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-05-04 15:20:36 UTC ]
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News Corp Australasia executive chairman issues all-staff memo, with scrutiny on election coverage likely to increaseGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesRupert Murdoch’s Australian lieutenant has told News Corp... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-04-13 07:57:04 UTC ]
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"The Unwritten Book" is a memoir and essay collection that finds beauty in impermanence. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-04-11 10:00:28 UTC ]
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In “Truly, Madly,” Stephen Galloway explores the tumultuous relationship of two of Hollywood legends. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-04-10 11:00:59 UTC ]
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Antonio Scurati's novel about Benito Mussolini is an exhaustive look at how democracy crumbles. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-04-06 11:00:35 UTC ]
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One of her country’s first writers to address female sexuality from a woman’s perspective, she produced four novels and dozens of short stories that could be read as political allegories. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2022-04-04 22:13:26 UTC ]
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Sarah Weinman, author of the new book, 'Scoundrel,' recommends 10 essential works of true crime. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Dig into these historical fiction titles that take inspiration from true crime. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2022-02-27 11:32:00 UTC ]
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Valve’s portable PC gaming machine, the Steam Deck, is gaining a lot of attention as its official release date draws near. But between its Linux-based Steam OS operating system and its power-efficient AMD parts, players could be forgiven for wondering which high-powered games can actually run... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2022-02-23 17:14:15 UTC ]
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