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rpannier

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85. The Guardian is wholly owned by Scott Trust Limited

Fri Jul 5, 2013, 06:47 PM

Jul 2013

I'd be curious where you get owned by Rupert Murdoch

As to your assertion that the Guardian is right wing, they have been the biggest media critic of Murdoch in Britain.
They are the biggest critic of the present Prime Minister and his party.
They regularly criticized Bushco when he was president.
The had round the clock coverage of the phone hacking scandal
They've run at least twenty stories on Murdoch's secretly taped apology at the Sun
They opposed Murdoch purchasing Sky Cable
They have questioned for over ten years the relationship between UK politicians and Murdoch

They're hardly conservative and as far as I can find they're not owned by Murdoch

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