Sentences with phrase «newspaper barons»

It also shows just how pathetic politicians are, including Mister Ed, who feel the need to rub shoulders with newspaper barons who have no qualms attacking the working class, demonising asylum seekers, vilifying benefit «scroungers», indulge in casual racism, homophobia and sexism....

The interim Ukip leader boasted to the room of donors, tax exiles and newspaper barons, that his movement was now on the march.

Wunderkind Orson Welles's deeply haunting depiction of the life of William Randolph Hearst, from working - class hero to failed political powerhouse to newspaper baron, has long been synonymous with the director's spectacularly odd and genuinely tragic career — and for good reason.

One newspaper baron who won't be supporting Kindle, however, is Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. «I can assure you, we will not be sending our content rights to the fine people who created the Kindle,» he told the Wall Street Journal last week.

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It comes just as media baron Rupert Murdoch is seeking U.K. government clearance for a euro12 billion ($ 19 billion) bid for full control of British Sky Broadcasting, a prize far more valuable than his British stable of newspapers.

An article published in one labour newspaper in 1884 concluding that «by that instrument the barons, spiritual and temporal, emancipated themselves from the arbitrary thraldom of the king.

The simple answer is that he wants to be considered as standing up against vested interest groups as he did with the newspapers, unlike David Cameron who has stood up for the press barons for party political gain.