Many of Mr. Musk’s posts, particularly those about gang raids, originate from an ecosystem of far-right bloggers and activists, but they also tempt mainstream politicians for cudgel to use against their opponents. There are also things to do. And they appeal to editors and broadcasters looking for good stories.
David Yelland, former editor of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun, said: “The British press and broadcasters went to great lengths to promote Elon Musk.” . “They did this because they are so hostile to Keir Starmer in the printing industry. This is old-school Fleet Street prejudice.”
Claire Enders, a London-based media researcher and founder of Enders Analysis, likened Mr. Musk to Mr. Murdoch, the Australian media mogul who upended London’s newspaper industry in the 1970s. “A new Murdoch has just been born,” she said. “He’s American, he’s a millionaire, he’s close to Trump.”
But Mr Musk is less interested in taking over the British press than in discrediting it. He claims the media was complicit in covering up the abuse of the girl. The truth is that when the scale of abuse became clear in the late 2000s and early 2010s, British newspapers across political lines covered these crimes vigorously, if not immediately. . In 2011, The Times of London published a major investigation into the scandal and the slow police response to it.
“This has been on the front pages of newspapers for years, leading the six o’clock news,” said Raheem Kassam, who covered the scandal as editor-in-chief of the British branch of the right-wing news organization Breitbart News. Ta. “The idea that there was a media blackout on this and that it took Elon Musk to bring it to light is nonsense.”
