Originally Posted by Inkblot:
“Maybe more like
Telegraph - right wing
Times - right wing
Mail - right wing
Express - right wing
Sun - right wing
Mirror - centre left
Guardian - centre left
There aren't really any mass-market left-wing papers as far as I can see.”
I know some people refer to it as such but I seriously doubt anyone can realistically call the Guardian/Observer centre left, it comes pretty much neck and neck with the Independent on leftism. I agree the Daily Mail is right wing, but it is the polar opposite to the Guardian which makes that left wing, in my view at least. Very few newspapers have a centre view in my opinion. I read The Sun, Daily Mail and The Daily Mirror pretty much every day, and all of them seem to be solidly one direction or the other, with not much centre. Also when I read the Mirror it seems solidly left as well, maybe not as much as the Guardian and Independent but there doesn't seem much centre or unbiased about it either. Also what about The I and Morning Star ? I haven't read them but I hear they are solidly left too.
But people can't blame the right wing for the Guardian (and Observer) being the only left wing newspaper left (although I would add The Mirror, The I, and Morning Star to that list as well), it is a business, and clearly there are not enough people who think the same way to buy it, either that or they do all their reading of it online. The Independent went down the pan (paper version) because it sold next to nothing. People on the right wing are not stopping these papers being sold, it is down to the people to buy it to keep them alive.