• mjr
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    1 month ago

    The media playing a big part in it was obvious. Also displaying a great deal of misunderstanding what the EU and what the UK is and isn’t.

    I think the owners understood full well, but chose not to share that understanding with their readers. The media barons profit more from misleading the public.

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      1 month ago

      Some definitely do, but even pro-European British media showed a blatant, outright hilarious lack of understanding of the matter.

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        1 month ago

        pro-European British media

        That’s only one newspaper, The New World, which only launched after the 2016 referendum (as The New European, claiming the heritage of The European which shut down in 1998).