Referendum & newspapers

Ballard

I don't think that there's any doubt that the printed press influenced the referendum massively and I'm interested to see which papers were read by voters from both sides.

I'm not at all interested in which papers are read by individual posters but am simply curious to see whether my thoughts pan out.

Edit: I can't get more than 10 options so have combined a couple of broadsheets and also forgot The Times and now can't work out how to amend the options so include all broadsheets in the Guardian/Telegraph vote.

Hopefully this won't turn into another argument. It doesn't matter which newspaper you read.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Ballard wrote: »

Edit: I can't get more than 10 options so have combined a couple of broadsheets and also forgot The Times and now can't work out how to amend the options so include all broadsheets in the Guardian/Telegraph vote.
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I read most news online - usually from the Times, Telegraph, Guardian, FT, Economist, and a few others.... SMH, WSJ, etc, so I voted for your broadsheet option of Telegraph/Guardian.

Telegraph was pro-leave, Guardian pro-remain, so not sure it's a good poll choice.

antrobus

Ballard wrote: »

I don't think that there's any doubt that the printed press influenced the referendum massively and I'm interested to see which papers were read by voters from both sides.
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Pro-Brexit articles dominated newspaper referendum coverage, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/20/pro-brexit-articles-dominated-newspaper-referendum-coverage-study-shows

Perhaps not as much as you think.:):):)

bugslet

IIRC, some press group determined that the Times was the most neutral of newspapers. I thought it did a fairly good job of putting both sides.

Would you have put it under Remain or Leave. (I think the former just, FWIW).

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

The polling data form the social attitudes survey does show a clear correlation between likelihood of voting leave and primary newspaper source.

Newspapers
The rates of Leave voting among people looked at by the newspapers read most often were:
Sun - 70%
Express - 70%
Mail - 66%
Star - 65%
Telegraph - 55%
Mirror - 44%
No newspaper - 41%
Other paper - 33%
Times - 30%
Financial Times - 22%
Independent - 15%
Guardian - 9%

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

bugslet wrote: »

IIRC, some press group determined that the Times was the most neutral of newspapers. I thought it did a fairly good job of putting both sides.

Would you have put it under Remain or Leave. (I think the former just, FWIW).

The Times is the paper I read most often as a physical newspaper - as it's a choice of that or the Sun on the flights to work every week - I'd agree it was very objective/neutral in it's coverage.

I think their editorial stance was to remain - but as you rightly note - the coverage was pretty much even for both sides.

mwpt

Some stats on that here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38227674

The rates of Leave voting among people looked at by the newspapers read most often were:
Sun - 70%
Express - 70%
Mail - 66%
Star - 65%
Telegraph - 55%
Mirror - 44%
No newspaper - 41%
Other paper - 33%
Times - 30%
Financial Times - 22%
Independent - 15%
Guardian - 9%

Running a poll here... I don't think an economics forum with a self selected group of people is the best sample.

EDIT: Sorry, saw this had already been posted.

Ballard

I posted this too early in the morning and didn't put enough thought into it. My initial idea was to determine how many people read some of the more excitable tabloids.

mayonnaise

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The rates of Leave voting among people looked at by the newspapers read most often were:
Sun - 70%
Express - 70%

No surprise one votes Leave if one gets served a daily portion of fear, anger, hate and bigotry.

TrickyTree83

mayonnaise wrote: »

No surprise one votes Leave if one gets served a daily portion of fear, anger, hate and bigotry.

And yet the only bigotry we see on here is people like yourself telling everyone who bothers to read what you post how Leave voters decided they had better vote leave because they were xenophobic and hate foreigners. They were too stupid to make up their own minds for other reasons and did what the printed media told them to do, right?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

TrickyTree83 wrote: »

And yet the only bigotry we see on here is people like yourself telling everyone who bothers to read what you post how Leave voters decided they had better vote leave because they were xenophobic and hate foreigners. They were too stupid to make up their own minds for other reasons and did what the printed media told them to do, right?

Clearly you like to think of yourself as the exception to the rule.

But the polling data is really pretty clear on this topic...;)