The Fourth Estate

The position of our national print and broadcast media on Brexit is telling. Here is my somewhat subjective snapshot

Telegraph – The only pro-Brexit broadsheet left, indeed the only pro-Brexit print national left. But gamely features columns by arch Remainiacs Blair, Hague et al from time to time just to draw a thousand angry negative comments for each

Daily Express – Was a staunch Leaver, but I suspect the advertisers have got to it. It can’t afford to lose it’s reader demographic so now punts for the Selmayr-Robbins Treaty

Sun – Likewise, a soft Leaver with a shouty voice

Daily Remain – Was a staunch Leaver until its owners changed editor from Dacre to Greggs. Remain Online maintains its success for an internet audience that will skip a Brexit story for a long page of photos of Megan. Actually a soft remainer that features just enough Leave columns to breathe – with comments filled with angry, betrayed Leavers

All the Rest – Remain and always have been. Mirror, Times, FT, i online and of course the broadcast media BBC and Sky. The free lifestyle adsheet in London the ‘Evening Standard’ which used to be a newspaper and whose lifestyle wallpaper columns are now managed by failed Chancellor George Osbourne (Osbourne and Little Paints and Papers Ltd).

So. One paper and not a single national broadcaster. That’s the power of the global corporates’ stock market power and advertising budgets for you.