Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Has this appeared anywhere else? Surely it's not true?
Not sure where he's got that from. The Private Eye article is saying that the £35m 'all in, all together' advertising campaign that the government ran was meant to be helping all the newspaper industry but the money ended up going to the fat cats rather than independent publishers. You can read in between the lines of that, of course, but it's quite a leap to say the government were sponsoring favourable editorials.