Saturday, September 13, 2014

Rupert Murdoch Arrives In Scotland And Considers Backing Independence

The owner of The Sun has been spotted in Aberdeen with just days to go until the referendum vote. But will his paper endorse either side?


The 83-year-old businessman was photographed in central Aberdeen on Saturday after apparently having lunch in a local pub.


Murdoch has taken an active interest in the Scottish independence campaign, with occasionally cryptic tweets on the country's economic prospects and the early release of polling data commissioned by his newspaper.


His Scottish Sun newspaper, which backed Alex Salmond's Scottish National Party in the 2011 Holyrood elections, has yet to take an official line on independence but has adopted an increasingly pro-nationalist slant in some of its reporting.




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