Posted on 05/07/2015 6:27:24 PM PDT by Steelfish
David Axelrod: UK Media Most Partisan I Have Seen – Even More Than Fox News
Ben Jacobs 7 May 2015 David Axelrod, the top aide to Barack Obama who travelled across the pond to advise Ed Miliband in the British election, has said he has never seen a media environment as partisan as the one in the UK.
Asked in an interview with Politico Europe whether he knew what he was getting into when he signed up to advise the British Labour leader, Axelrod replied: “We discussed this when I signed on … I’ve worked in aggressive media environments before but not this partisan.”
Axelrod, who shepherded Obama through two presidential campaigns and the constant media churn of cable news and talk radio, said he thought American media were far less driven by party politics than its British equivalent.
British conservative print media was not only more powerful than Fox News is in the US but was also far more partisan than the cable news network, Axelrod said.
“Fox is certainly very conservative, skews to the Republican side, but there isn’t a kind of lockstep between them and the Republicans,” he said. “Fox tries to drive the Republican agenda more than reflecting it.”
He said of the UK, which he said he had visited “half a dozen” times while advising Miliband in his attempt to unseat the Conservative prime minister, David Cameron: “Here there are relationships between the parties and media outlets that are deeper so you see a lot of themes being previewed in the media in a way that you don’t see in the states.”
The result, Axelrod said, had made Britain the most partisan media environment that he has ever experienced.
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Considering the lack of Axelrod’s intellect, there is not any information in his clueless utterings.
If Axelrod ever met Jesus Christ, he would call him the most the most biased person he ever met. In a match between God and the devil, Axelrod would side with the devil.
A guy accustomed to swimming in a sewer is complaining because the next pipe over doesn’t smell quite right to him. Cry me a river.
And the pot called the kettle black...lol
Humphrey: "The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers' prejudices."Hacker: Don't tell me about the press, I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
Yes, Prime Minister
More than PMSNBC?
But the Conservatives still won despite what the Leftist media in the UK kept saying.
lol
Another commie heard from. One red going across the pond to help another.
Old reds never die. They just smell that way.
Wah!!!!!
The Sultan’s “experts” lost as advisors in Israel and are losing in England. They must really really hate not having uniform support from News Cartel bootlickers.
Conservative and Scottish National Party are gaining. Connect to SkyNews via Internet.It is exciting to watch! The Conservatives were up bi in the exit polling, but the SNP is Leftist. Hoping the Conservatives pull out a larger majority as the LibDems, with whom they formed their coalition, are going down.
So he has never seen MSNBC the official media arm of the Democrat Party?
Watching LIVE from Southampton, UKIP got ONE seat!!! ONE! Conservatives have 282.....Labour 216 right now.
Milibrand loses his seat!
HahahahahahahahahaHAHAHhhhhhahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHHhh
There should be a thread just for the wonderful work Mr. Axelrod did for the lefties in the UK!
Pay attention to what the Commie-who-ought-to-be-in-jail says. He is partly responsible for the electoral success of Obama-the-commie-who-ought-to-be-there-with-him.
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