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Financial interests in newspapers

those newspapers have shares in those sort of things and up the price of things and it was all done for a reason because had it not been for that reason people wouldn't have gon...

Course: Big questions in societySection: How Britons consume and trust newsSubtitles: en

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maybe were in charge of

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those newspapers

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have shares in those sort of things and

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up the price of things and it was all

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done for a reason because had it not

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been for that reason people wouldn't

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have gone out and

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and done it and maybe those newspapers

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would have got fines because they

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shouldn't have scared people like that

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that's really nice uh topic you bring

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out actually because that's perfect

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reason why i'm kind of asking about news

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because they kind of created almost like

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a self-fulfilling clay news story yeah

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we've run out of petrol and they

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actually did

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yeah yeah yeah exactly exactly they

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instigated it they started the ball

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rolling and they made the problem that

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wasn't the problem in the first place

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below your

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thoughts about the news and we'll see

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you next week

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bye

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