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If Glenn Greenwald’s sweeping attribution of views to UK/US voters appeared unsupported, his claim of a UK media “united against Brexit” was demonstrably wrong. Here’s what he wrote: “Though there were some exceptions, establishment political and media elites in the U.K. were vehemently united against Brexit, but their decreed wisdom was ignored, even scorned.” — Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, 25 June 2016 The exact opposite appears to be true. The Sun, Daily Mail, Express, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph were all in favour of Brexit. Counting the dailies (not the Sunday ...more
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