Voices: Pearl-clutching over the UAE bid to buy the Telegraph has a whiff of hypocrisy about it – and self-interest
Few campaigns have been waged with more unrelenting ferocity than the concerted attempt by the Conservative Party right to block the UAE-financed takeover of The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator.
Fraser Nelson, the current editor of The Spectator, argues that the UAE poses a threat to a free press.
Charles Moore, a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph, notes that the bid is fronted by media baron Jeff Zucker because, under him, “CNN became an aggressively left-wing news network”.
I agree with Moore and Nelson (and many other voices) that the and are valuable national institutions. I also agree with them that UAE ownership would raise vital issues about freedom of speech and press freedom.
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