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"As for The Guardian, it does something very different indeed by choosing a news headline, "Cameron eyes the prize", which is based on a poll result and which runs counter to its own general political sympathies."
Great analysis of all (read: most) of today's national paper front pages.
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Del.ici.us tags: guardian election2010 newspapers
Charles Arthur on #nickcleggsfault:
"In particular the Daily Mail's use of an eight-year-old article written by Clegg for the Guardian, in which he criticises attitudes to Germany which seem stuck in the 1950s – and fail to recognise how it has reinvented itself since – for its front-page splash outraged many Twitter commentators, who rapidly pointed to the Mail's history of seeking to deny refuge to Jews fleeing the Nazis, and to Lord Rothermere's congratulatory telegram to Hitler for the Czech invasion in 1939.
The rapid responses on Twitter indicate just how much shorter the feedback loop now is for the mainstream media and electors – and how dangerous it can be to attack politicians who are riding a wave of popularity."
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Gordon Brown on newspaper paywalls:
""I don’t think you are going to be able to put things behind paywalls in the way that people think.
"People will pay for certain things, and should pay for certain things, but I think there’s a whole sort of element of communication that’s got to be free.
"People mind paying for basic news.""
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