The Times

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The Times is a Liberal daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1785 as The Daily Universal Register.


Proprietors

The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International which is entirely owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert Murdoch, a republican.

In recent years it more notable editors were Harold Evans and William Rees-Mogg, both liberals.

Politics

Though originally a moderately small 'c' conservative newspaper, in the twentieth century it moved firmly into the liberal mode, and it openly supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 General Elections.[1] In 2005, according to the polling group MORI, the voting intentions of its readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats, 26% for Labour. This means 55% of readers at that time were on The Left of politics.[2] Given that the Conservative Party is today a Mark II Liberal party it could be argued that The Times has become just another organ of The Left. Its constant attacks upon the United Kingdom Independence Party, a threat to the establishment parties, in the months leading up to the 2014 European Union Elections appear to confirm this. Its continuous reports and attacks on normal patriotic conservatives across Europe as "Far-Right" is an open demonstration of the paper's political position.

Other Times

The Times lends its name to many other papers around the world, such as The New York Times, The Times of India, and The Irish Times. It is sometimes referred to outside of (though never within) the UK as the London Times or The Times of London. The paper is the originator of the ubiquitous 'Times New Roman' typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech printing.

Format

The newspaper was printed in broadsheet format for 200 years, but switched to a tabloid size in 2004 partly in an attempt to appeal to younger readers, partly to appeal to commuters using public transportation, and partly to cut costs. A United States edition has been published since June 6, 2006.[3]

Like other UK national newspapers its circulation has dramatically fallen in the past decades and continues to do so. In an attempt to counter this decline in publishes an on-line edition available only on subscription payments.

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