{"id":214634,"date":"2025-01-14T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/the-british-public-dislikes-elon-musk-he-can-still-sway-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:46:09","slug":"the-british-public-dislikes-elon-musk-he-can-still-sway-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/the-british-public-dislikes-elon-musk-he-can-still-sway-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The British Public Dislikes Elon Musk. He Can Still Sway Politics."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/14\/multimedia\/14uk-musk-media01-photo-bwmq\/14uk-musk-media01-photo-bwmq-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The British Public Dislikes Elon Musk. He Can Still Sway Politics.\" title=\"The British Public Dislikes Elon Musk. He Can Still Sway Politics.\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While many of Mr. Musk\u2019s posts, particularly those on grooming gangs, originated in the ecosystem of far-right bloggers and activists, they are also tempting to mainstream politicians in search of a cudgel to use against their opponents. And they appeal to editors and broadcasters looking for a good story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe British press and the broadcasters, to a degree, fell all over themselves to give Elon Musk publicity,\u201d said David Yelland, a former editor of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s tabloid, The Sun. \u201cIn the print press, they did it because they are extremely hostile to Keir Starmer. This is plain old Fleet Street bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Claire Enders, a London-based media researcher and founder of Enders Analysis, likened Mr. Musk to Mr. Murdoch, the insurgent media baron from Australia who upended the London newspaper industry in the 1970s. \u201cWe just have a new Murdoch,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s American, he\u2019s a multibillionaire, and he\u2019s close to Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk, however, is not interested in taking over the British press so much as discrediting it. He claims the news media was complicit in a coverup of abuses against young girls. The truth is, British newspapers across the political spectrum did cover these crimes, if not immediately, then energetically, as the scale of the abuses became apparent in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The Times of London published a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3w69p2vz0lo\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">major investigation of the scandal<\/a>, and the slow response to it by the police, in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s been on the front page of every paper and led the 6 o\u2019clock news for years,\u201d said Raheem Kassam, who covered the scandal as editor of the British outpost of the right-wing news outlet, Breitbart News. \u201cThe idea that there is a media blackout on this, and we needed Elon Musk to uncover it, is nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/14\/world\/europe\/elon-musk-uk-starmer-grooming-gangs.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many of Mr. Musk\u2019s posts, particularly those on grooming gangs, originated in the ecosystem of far-right bloggers and activists, they are also tempting to mainstream politicians in search of a cudgel to use against their opponents. And they appeal to editors and broadcasters looking for a good story. \u201cThe British press and the broadcasters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/14\/multimedia\/14uk-musk-media01-photo-bwmq\/14uk-musk-media01-photo-bwmq-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163423,5539,73665,169472,14,164919,141777,2534,896,23751,169473,84420,169476,3959,5538,164920,33053,6039,41668,163426,29996,369,137131,169471,3560,164427,22697,163421,54808,776,3960,166299,4705,14236,169474,169475,163425,163419,137817],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214636,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214634\/revisions\/214636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}