Man, the lengths Bush and Blair and their media sycophants will go to manufacture this stuff. This was posted by Mik Duffy in the Currents forum.

Blair’s attempt to allow the 90 day detention of terrorist suspects
was strongly supported by the Murdoch owned media in Britain. British
tabloid The Sun drummed up an emotive campaign to drum up public
support for the measure. Certainly thousands of the easily
manipulated right wing readers of that rag supported the measure and
Murdoch and Blair both tried to use their support as evidence of a
widespread public mandate.

The links between New Labour and Murdoch have always been visible but
their collusion has never seemed to naked. At any rate I doubt the
vast majority of Briton are in favour of such draconian nonsense.

Very interesting piece in today’s Guardian on The Sun’s efforts to
mould public opinion…

“On Tuesday, the Sun’s front page evoked memories of the July 7
London bombings in a shocking way. A huge picture of a blood-soaked
victim dominated the page. Under the banner “Terror laws” was a large
picture of the victim with the words: “Tell Tony He’s Right.” The
implication was clear: this victim had spoken to the Sun and was
calling on the public to back Blair’s tough terror bill, defeated in
the Commons last night. The Sun’s strong and emotive front page was
mentioned several times on other media including BBC Radio 4’s Today
programme and the World at One. It was widely recognised as a key
element in sending a message to Labour waverers that those whose
opinion on the bombings is unimpeachable - the victims - were strongly
in favour of the government’s hardline stance.

There could be no more inappropriate image for the Sun to have
chosen. The bloodied victim, John Tulloch, feels deep anger with Tony
Blair and politicians for the role they played in stirring up the
violence that came to London on July 7. But Tulloch also happens to be
a university professor in media studies. As the Sun’s editors were
putting together their front page on Monday night, Tulloch, slowly
recovering from his injuries, was hard at work on a book he has just
started. The subject? What happens when a professor of media studies,
habituated to deconstructing news stories, becomes the subject of the
story.”

The story in the Guardian.