{"id":81957,"date":"2023-11-25T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=81957"},"modified":"2023-11-25T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T10:37:00","slug":"ex-telegraph-editor-titles-should-not-be-controlled-by-foreign-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/ex-telegraph-editor-titles-should-not-be-controlled-by-foreign-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Telegraph editor: Titles should not be controlled by foreign power"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ex-Telegraph editor: Readers would never forgive a Government which let the titles be sold to foreign power<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charles Moore said the Daily Telegraph was a &#8216;great British institution&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ministers would never be forgiven if they let the Daily Telegraph be sold to a foreign power, a veteran former editor of the paper warned last night.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Moore said it was a &#8216;great British institution&#8217; that must not be &#8216;nationalised&#8217; \u2013 especially by a state that does not cherish Press freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>He said there would &#8216;to put it mildly, be a stink&#8217; if any newspaper was nationalised by a British government.<\/p>\n<p>The former editor, who was made a peer in 2020, spoke out as the venerable 168-year-old Telegraph faces being bought by a group part-funded by the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Moore, who joined the Telegraph as a political reporter in 1979, has edited the daily edition, the Sunday Telegraph and their magazine stablemate the Spectator \u2013 and is still on the staff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/25\/01\/78217799-12789117-image-a-15_1700874057358.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charles Moore said\u00a0the Daily Telegraph was a &#8216;great British institution&#8217; that must not be &#8216;nationalised&#8217; \u2013 especially by a state that does not cherish Press freedoms (File Photo)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/25\/01\/78218129-12789117-image-m-7_1700875521005.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lord Moore, who joined the Telegraph as a political reporter in 1979, has edited the daily edition, the Sunday Telegraph and their magazine stablemate the Spectator \u2013 and is still on the staff<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the Telegraph last night, he warned Rishi Sunak: &#8216;It is little more than a statement of fact to say that the Telegraph and the Spectator are great British institutions. They should not be controlled by a foreign power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After more than 40 years&#8217; friendly acquaintance with the readers of all our titles, I feel quite confident in predicting that they would not forgive any government which let them go.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Government is mulling over whether to intervene in the sale of the Telegraph titles to RedBird IMI, a joint venture partly funded by Sheikh Mansour, the deputy prime minister of the UAE and owner of Manchester City FC.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Moore, who was Lady Thatcher&#8217;s authorised biographer, wrote: &#8216;Imagine that the Telegraph (or any other British national newspaper, Left, Right or centre) were nationalised by the British government. There would, to put it mildly, be a stink. It would be seen as an unprecedented power grab by the state against the freedom of the Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Luckily \u2013 though the freedom of the Press is never completely secure even here in Britain \u2013 newspaper nationalisation is seen as beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yet now, perhaps the week after next, the nationalisation of a British national newspaper seems possible. It would be nationalisation by a country which does not have Press freedom.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said the UAE, like &#8216;all states, particularly authoritarian ones, will sacrifice the interests of others if it thinks its own interests are threatened&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the Gulf nation&#8217;s increasing closeness to China, and warned: &#8216;There is a reason why they do not go big on Press freedom: they fear freedom in all its forms and close it down if it causes trouble. They could do that to a newspaper.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/25\/01\/78217797-12789117-image-a-17_1700874270894.jpg\" height=\"1047\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Writing for the Telegraph last night,\u00a0Lord Moore warned Rishi Sunak : &#8216;It is little more than a statement of fact to say that the Telegraph and the Spectator are great British institutions. They should not be controlled by a foreign power (File Photo)<\/p>\n<p>RedBird IMI has pledged to maintain the newspapers&#8217; editorial freedoms and be a &#8216;passive investor&#8217;. But Lord Moore said such promises often made &#8216;little difference to the structure of real power&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Last night there were warnings of a Whitehall battle breaking out between departments over the issue because of the absence through illness of the cabinet secretary Simon Case.<\/p>\n<p>Senior figures at the Foreign Office have already sought to &#8216;take the edge off&#8217; a letter sent by Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer to RedBird IMI over fears about offending the United Arab Emirates, which includes Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>The tensions between the culture department and the more powerful Foreign Office risk becoming &#8216;increasingly messy&#8217; over competing priorities, with ensuring a free Press being set against a drive to increase foreign investment, The Guardian has reported. Yesterday No 10 tried to calm matters by suggesting it was &#8216;standard procedure&#8217; for the Foreign Office to have intervened.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a number of other groups bidding to buy the Telegraph, including DMGT which owns the Mail.<\/p>\n<p>RedBird IMI&#8217;s chief executive Jeff Zucker, a former president of CNN, told the Financial Times yesterday: &#8216;There should be no question about the editorial independence of the Telegraph or Spectator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve spent 35 years running or supervising news organisations, and there&#8217;s nothing I understand more than editorial independence. I have staked my reputation and legacy on not allowing editorial interference.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He accused rival media organisations of &#8216;slinging mud and throwing darts &#8230; because they want to own these assets&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12789117\/Ex-Telegraph-editor-Readers-never-forgive-Government-let-titles-sold-foreign-power.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Telegraph editor: Readers would never forgive a Government which let the titles be sold to foreign power Charles Moore said the Daily Telegraph was a &#8216;great British institution&#8217; Ministers would never be forgiven if they let the Daily Telegraph be sold to a foreign power, a veteran former editor of the paper warned last night.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Telegraph editor: Titles should not be controlled by foreign power - posterboyedit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/ex-telegraph-editor-titles-should-not-be-controlled-by-foreign-power\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Telegraph editor: Titles should not be controlled by foreign power - posterboyedit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ex-Telegraph editor: Readers would never forgive a Government which let the titles be sold to foreign power Charles Moore said the Daily Telegraph was a &#8216;great British institution&#8217; 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