Murdoch's media empire's role in the rise of isolationists on the right growing in the UK.

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"...increasing emergence of a group, consisting of nearly half the Tory parliamentary party, dedicated to the neo-isolationist ideology that Britain would be better off out of the EU. Britain is one of the weakest European economies, with almost zero growth, a huge deficit, high inflation and rising unemployment. Yet there is a solipsistic belief among the rightwing commentariat that we can lecture Germany, Finland, Estonia, France and the Netherlands on what to do.

Eurosceptic wing that follows the principle of "first simplify, then exaggerate". (Sounds like a teabagger tactic.) He argues that there was a conspiracy to control the media so that the truth about Europe will be hidden from the British people.

Oborne is right to say that Philip Stephens of the Financial Times now and then writes that perhaps the EU is a good thing on the whole. But set against the serried ranks of commentators for the Murdoch papers, the Mail, the Express and the Telegraph papers which spew out anti-European news and comment pieces with vigour and enthusiasm, the notion that the media have been suborned into aiding and abetting a pro-Europe line is silly.

Today the isolationists are in the saddle. The Murdochs, Blacks and Rothermeres have their Melanies, Bruces and Simons to rant against Europe. They have conquered the field. Pro-Europeans have shrunk away. Peter Oborne has all the space in the world to make his propaganda against Europe. Whether it is good for British journalism to have so little balance and such scorn for facts is another question.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/23/eurosceptic-peter-oborne-pamphlet?newsfeed=true