Saturday, May 01, 2010
Guardian Deserts Brown
With the Guardian's announcement that they are backing the Liberal Democrats, I think that leaves Gordon Brown only with the support of the Daily Mirror. Of course, the papers don't win elections, and this is of interest more as an inidcation of how these commercially attuned enterprises see public opinion going. Nonetheless, it does mean that if Labour under Brown do have role in the next government, the majority of the print media will be viewing it all from the outside, and they and their owners are not usually satisfied with that!
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