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Charles Moore reflects on the events of the week
I think it is more to do with Murdoch’s point about emancipation. The popular papers have not really adjusted to the aspirations of the second generation of mass ownership. The majority of people now wrestle with complicated issues of borrowing, pensions, insurance; many own shares. They may well work for foreign employers, or work, for long periods, abroad. Roughly half of the children now being born will go to university. Most people use the internet, and it accustoms them to a world in which choice can be very precise, and where they can pursue particular interests in depth. For such people, tabloids may still be amusing, but they do not give them their window on the world, nor do they express their hopes and fears, nor do they give them very useful advice. If you look at the Sun today, it seems, as it never did before, old-fashioned. I do rather miss the days when it was the Sun which got there first — I remember first making the acquaintance of Carla Bruni, now President Sarkozy’s friend, as ‘The Botty That Drove Mick [Jagger] Potty’ — but it will be a liberating thing if politicians no longer have to suck up to the paper. Notice that David Cameron does not bother to prostrate himself before it: that is astute of him.
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