SubscriptionsAuthor: Julian Petley
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Why the British Press Is Really Angry About the Government’s Planned Media ‘Prominence’ Law
Julian Petley on the real reasons why the right-wing press are so worried about plans to ensure online platforms prioritise trustworthy news over disinformation
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Spinning on His Axel: The Right-Wing Politics of the Billionaire Businessman Taking Over the Telegraph
Julian Petley investigates what really motivates the German media mogul taking over Britain’s leading conservative broadsheet
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Inside the Hall of Mirrors: The Telegraph’s Dangerous Games Over Online Harms
The paper which acted ‘grossly irresponsibly’ during Covid is now doing the same thing with the Online Safety Act, argues Julian Petley
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‘The Journalists Who Really Take Sides When Reporting on the Far-Right Are Its Cheerleaders in the Right-Wing Press’
There’s a big difference between impartiality and giving the politics of hate and deception a free pass, argues Julian Petley
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The British Political-Media Class’ Mainstreaming of the Populist Radical-Right
Julian Petley explores how hard-right views have increasingly been normalised as the ‘common sense’ of the more mainstream right
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How a ‘Populist’ Media Has Mainstreamed the Far Right
Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent ‘public opinion’ – they simply reflect the radical right views of those ‘who own and run them’, argues Julian Petley
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‘The Culture War is Dead: Long Live the Culture War’
Julian Petley explains why the University of Sussex ‘freedom of expression’ case is so concerning
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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‘The Higher Education Act is a Culture War Tactic Designed by Right-Wingers to Ensure Their Views are Heard’
‘It is difficult not to regard the Act as a classic piece of doublethink designed to censor freedom of expression in the guise of protecting it’
