Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is stepping down after 26 years
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Not sure if SH or PD but it 'feels' more PD?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44391449
This is big but don't get your hopes up yet
The Daily Mail has been edited by Dacre since 1992 and he is like the Daily Mail's Steve Bannon. But it's actually owned by a guy named Lord Rothermere, who disagrees with a lot of the Mail's opinions, but has a strong policy of not interfering with editorial decisions. For example, Rothermere was a Remainer, but he let the Mail back Leave anyway.
Now Rothermere has to choose a new editor, and there are a few people at the top of the rumour list:
Tony Gallagher, editor of the Sun. The Sun backed Leave, shares a lot of political positions with the Mail, but is even more tabloidy.
Chris Evans, editor of the Daily Telegraph. Backed Leave, but is a bit less of a shitshow than the Mail.
Geordie Greig, editor of the Mail on Sunday.
Now get a shovel and dig this: The Mail on Sunday is very different from the regular Daily Mail. It broke ranks and backed Remain in the referendum. When the Daily Mail ran a front-page editorial calling High Court judges 'enemies of the people', the Mail on Sunday ran its own editorial arguing that statements like that 'endanger the delicate balance of our constitution'.
If Greig gets the job, it's still gonna be a rightwing conservative paper, but it should start heading in a less disgusting direction and maybe it will even back off from Brexit a bit. If Evans gets the job, it's still gonna back Brexit and everything but its bullshit might at least be toned down. If Gallagher gets the job, ah fuck I can't believe you've done this.
Or it could be someone else entirely! They're announcing his replacement in the next few days.
I suspect Greig may get the position as this is a rare opportunity for Rothermere to actually exert his influence while being quite easily smokescreened as a "right man for the job" type situation. It would also make an almost immediate difference, I should think, to the culture in many parts of this country where the Mail is the dominant paper. Certain areas near me you can absolutely spot the groups of people who are influenced heavily by what they read in the paper, including some of my not so distant relatives.
We can but hope - the power and control the Mail has exerted over this country is probably unprecedented, and yet it'll be years before it's fully quantified by historians. Perhaps Brexit might even have an end result by then.
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