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Del.ici.us tags: election2010 guardian newspapers history
"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
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"The BBC has refused a freedom of information request to reveal how many people watched its TV drama about freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke."
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"Some of Clegg's most fervent supporters can be found on Twitter. From midway through the first TV leaders' debate, and with increasing intensity thereafter, he has dominated election tweets. As the press started to turn on Clegg, tweeters even dared to use irony, so often a counterproductive tactic, to show their support for him. The running joke, on #Nickcleggsfault, in which he was blamed for a series of supposed sins, has been hugely popular. Example: "Nick Clegg lived in the same town as a seriously ill man and never visited him, though he knows he has a spare kidney."
Just as importantly, tweeters used the social networking site to lampoon the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Sun. Hundreds of tweets on Friday pointed to a website that features scores of imaginary anti-Clegg Mail headlines: Will Clegg cheat the middle class? Has Clegg given hard-working families cancer? Is Nick Clegg destroying Britain's farmers?"
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For the first time, the Guardian also decided to hear not only from its staff, but from its readers and web users, too.
Article also includes great overview of which party the main British papers have supported since 1945.
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Great interview by Robert Andrews of "Guardian News & Media’s veteran digital content director Emily Bell, who has spent the last two decades doing, says she will now marry both industry and academic takes on re-inventing the news business, when she becomes director of Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism in July."
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