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 Ive 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 isnt 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 dont 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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Gotcha...tired of them telling both sides of the story and being on the side of the bipartisanship that disagrees with your viewpoints...so that makes you a liberal bigot...am I right?
Why can’t all the media be neutral and objective like ... MSNBC?
Fricken Hypocrite
As CNN,NBC,CBS,ABC,MSNBC and PBS drive the LIBERAL/SOCIALIST agenda....Hypocrite
Seems to me that the only time Axlegrease wasn’t lying was when he ratted out Obama’s real stance on gay marriage.
UKIP must be winning big.
One can learn more from british media about whats going on in washington than from the american media.
For example, its from the british media I first learned about how hillarys very first campaign stop was populated with nothing but democrat party operative plants. American media was absolutely silent on that inconvenient little detail.
Bipartisanship - The other side ALWAYS lets me have my way, in the end. Debate is ornamental or more commonly absent.
PARTISAN - There’s an actual debate over something of substance.
The British Media is to the US what Radio Free Europe was to the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
He's got that part right.
David, go eat astro-turf.
Axelhead. Is a Pravda guy. He feels the media should just be an appendage of the Dim/Socialist Party. The fact that Fox doesn’t worship the None is an obsession with him and drives him even nuttier than he already was.
I can see why Axelrod has his Depends in a bundle, as the UK presents left AND right. I only read UK papers, as I know of none here that aren’t garbage.
Come on Davy. Knock off the whining. The clowns at all of the alphabets, CNN and MSNBC live on their knees kissing ‘RATS’ asses all over the country. Get off of FNC’s ass. Not everyone wants to see a communist AMERICA.
Go read your ‘Alinsky’ axelhole.... Fox and the Brits are telling the truth....is what you really mean
If Axe does not like it, IT MUST BE GOOD!
What we need is a la carte cable.
I would love to see exactly how many people would make the choice to pay for CNN and MSNBC.
John McCain’s one good idea which died in committee in 2013. Canada however is going for ala carte cable by the end of 2016 - http://deadline.com/2015/03/canada-cable-tv-a-la-carte-pricing-bundle-1201395584/
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