When George Osborne took over at the Evening Standard, a free and supposedly neutral paper, there started a run of brazen knocks on Theresa May, like scorned ex-employee stuff. Funny, but childish, and blatant. See now, their stance towards Corbyn is comical. It's like that sort of newsnight backdrop but in print. Daily. Especially since hes not jumped on the band wagon and has only gone as far as saying evidence points towards Russia as opposed to being "culpable" (as May did). I'm not a semantics expert so I don't know if these do amount to basically the same thing.Anyway, I'm tempted to collect a week's worth and measure the number of anti-corbyn pieces vs holding the gov to account pieces, but particularly the subtle and more sinister placing of terminology like "the Left" and "the far Left" and "radical Left" ("Left" always capitalised).
I'm not sure yet whether I'm seeing these because I want to, or whether Osborne is trying to chip away at people's pysche. I never seem to see the same stuff written about "the Right" or "the far Right". Maybe measuring will tell me otherwise, I dunno.
I'm no Corbyn fanboy but I'm deeply scepticle about Osborne editing a free London commute rag read by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, subtly eroding people's ideas.