Newspapers influence on voting in the EU referendum of 2016

My daughter reliably informs me that her generation couldn’t be bothered to vote as they didn’t think it had anything to do with them! She voted naturally. My girls have been taught how important your vote is.

I certainly don’t think the newspapers I read affect my thinking but I dare say there are others who accept verbatim the trash peddled by the red tops

But here we go again on Brexit. {sigh}

I read the other day that in America you can’t own a newspaper unless you’re an American citizen. My first thought was what about Rupert Murdoch so I just googled him and he had to take out American citizenship because of it. Who owns the newspapers in the UK?

Interesting but not surprising

I'm always a bit shocked that many people don't read the policies for local MP candidates or even their parties... they picked a "team" a long time ago and stuck with them no matter how badly they play

To be fair, not many options available

I rarely get a newspaper. I believe that that the media has a huge impact on the voting public.
I wonder if there’s any statistics on BBC /ITV/ no TV voting outcomes?

Why shouldn’t this be raised
I believe the right wing press has a huge influence on the voting public

So if you look at the vote by social class - do we know if the upper middle class largely read the Guardian. I would be sure about that.

My comment was to varian. I totally understand her reasons for raising this, quite obvious.

Indeed!

What’s the point of raising this?