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(回答先: ルパート・マードックが公然とブレア不支持を示唆 嘘つき小僧と藪吉はいよいよ使い捨てか？ 投稿者 戦争屋は嫌いだ 日時 2003 年 11 月 15 日 09:01:22)
つまり激震。ガーデイアン：マードックが次の選挙では保守党を応援する可能性あり。
写真は老けたなあ。こういう化け物が、権力の妄執に取り憑かれて、世界中を思想支配するのである。まさに、SFホラーそこのけの生き地獄である。
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1085538,00.html
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Murdoch may back Tories at next election
Owen Gibson
Friday November 14, 2003
photo: Murdoch: could switch allegiance to Conservatives
ﾊRupert Murdoch, the 72-year-old media mogul and owner of the Sun and the Times, has hinted his newspapers may throw their support behind Michael Howard's Conservative party at the next general election.
He told Jeff Randall in an interview for tonight's Newsnight on BBC2 that he was was "torn" between the Tories and Labour.
"We'll have to see how the Tory front bench looks, [if] it looked like a viable alternative government, which it hasn't so far.
"And we will not quickly forget the courage of Tony Blair in the international sphere in the last several months, so we may be torn in our decision. So let's wait and see," Mr Murdoch, in London for today's stormy BSkyB annual general meeting, told the BBC's business editor.
His comments will be seen as warning to both political parties that the magnate has yet to make up his mind who to throw his weight behind at the next general election.
His papers, especially the Sun, are seen as critical in a general election and for the last two he has supported Labour, largely because he believes because it would have been unconvincing to wade in behind a weak Tory party.
In an exchange that will alarm Tony Blair, he is asked if he thinks it is a shoo-in that he will support Labour next time round, he replied: "No. There's no shoo-in that we'll support the Tories either."
He added: "The jury's still out."
Labour is instinctively anathema to Mr Murdoch and his hostility towards the European Union has made them uncomfortable bedfellows over the last six years.
He warned if the new European constitution was anything like the draft, his papers would oppose the government.
"I don't like the idea of any more abdication of our sovereignty in economic affairs or anything else."
He has already thrown down the gauntlet to the Labour party when he made Rebekah Wade editor of the Sun, as she made it plain from her very first editorial that she would not be a blind supporter of the Labour party like her predecessor.
More recently the Sun looks as if it is ready to switch sides - it has praised the choice of Michael Howard as Tory leader, printing several positive leader columns on the party's resurrection with a notably supportive piece penned by the political editor Trevor Kavanagh.
The Sun played an instrumental part in Labour's victory in 1997 when it ditched more than a decade of support for the Conservatives to back Tony Blair's populist agenda. While its influence is downplayed by some pundits, political parties put great store in the newspaper's influence.
Following Neil Kinnock's election defeat in 1992, the Sun famously claimed "It's the Sun wot won it" after publishing a front page on polling day that declared "If Neil Kinnock wins today, would the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights".
Mr Blair and spin chief Alastair Campbell visited Mr Murdoch in Australia before the 1997 election, raising speculation that he had tried to woo the media tycoon to the New Labour cause.
And in March 1997, Alastair Campbell agreed Mr Blair would write an article for the newspaper about Europe apparently after bumping into the then editor, Stuart Higgins, on the way to a football match.
Mr Murdoch has been generally supportive of Mr Blair, particularly over the Iraq war, but the Sun has increasingly clashed with his stance on Europe and the euro in recent months.
"I think Tony is being extraordinarily courageous and strong on what his stance is in the Middle East.
"It's not easy to do that living in a party which is largely composed of people that have a knee-jerk anti-Americanism and are sort of pacifist," Mr Murdoch told Australian magazine the Bulletin earlier this year.
"But he's shown great guts, as he did, I think, in Kosovo and over various problems in the old Yugoslavia," he said
In the interview, which will be screened on BBC2's Newsnight tonight, Mr Murdoch also hits out at the European Union investigation into BSkyB's deal with the Premier League for exclusive rights to live football.
If the EU competition commissioner Mario Monti took action to scupper the deal "you are going to see more than half the football clubs in Britain go broke," said Mr Murdoch.
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