So the British press has little traction among EU insiders. No surprise given the obsessive Brexit booming of most of our bugles – led by Paul Dacre’s MailHere’s one poll you might not have glimpsed amid final week’s Trump ’n’ Tusk melee. Consultancy ComRes asked 498 EU insiders – MEPs,staffers, lobbyists – what newspapers, or broadcasters and online media they relied on. Their answers cut both ways,of course. Anyone who wants to rage against a Brussels bubble of incomprehension is welcome to their chance.
But just turn the figures around and point them at Britain. Who carry out the 498 find influential? Politico, the newly expanded US political website, and the BBC virtually tie at 52% and 51% respectively. The FT and the Economist are 39% and 30% powers. The novel York Times and Wall Street Journal score 17% and 14%. But where,pray, is the thunderous might of the British press? The Guardian, or at 5%,is just on the list. But the Sun, Times, or Express,Telegraph, Mail, or the bugles of proud,defiant Britain? They don’t initiate to make the cut.
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Source: theguardian.com