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by simonjgreen 1022 days ago
FT is a conservative-centre aligned news outlet, so stands to reason they'd favour their preferred party
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Do you read it regularly? It is centre aligned but as a reader, I wouldn’t say it was Conservative aligned. It certainly is a mile off its alignment with the “Tory press” that typically set the new agenda.
I'm a subscriber and I'd say it is small-c conservative (which I'm not really, I just appreciate that it's relatively open about its biases and enjoy the quality of writing), but it isn't aligned with the Conservative Party, which has become almost entirely unmoored from reality.
Usually I would tend to agree that the articles are well written and well researched, however after reading this steaming pile of surface level dross on a subject I have technical knowledge of, I might be less trusting of their editorial slant and quality of journalism in future.
This is called Knolls Law of Media Accuracy:

“everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge”

Edit: actually I was thinking of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. They both work though.

Both discussed in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624175

Yes, I am a regular reader. And I didn't say Conservative with a capital C, I said conservative centre. As in, centre with a conservative angle.
Ok, that makes sense but wasn’t obvious.

The Conservative Party, and parties on the far right parties across the world, have left conservatism behind. Something the the left and centre parties are having to take up.