Our Shameless Media
My daughter used to love the Today Programme. Now she cringes when she listens. Her morning listening pleasure is totally destroyed. After listening to the bilge manufactured by the programme to by-pass the Labour win in Batley and Spen, I am embarrassed for them. How do the newscasters, who I assume are well-trained professionals, deal with this level of smoke and mirrors? Have they no professional standards, no shame at what they are reduced to? Why not resign and do something honourable, such as making a huge noise at the footies?
Once upon a time, not so long ago, we had a news landscape we could be proud of. There was no noticable obfuscation or bias. Now we have a small of group of well-dressed, well-coiffured men and women. trying to mislead a whole nation about the degree to which the present Tory Government is a national disaster. Come -on! A combination of Johnson, Hancock and Gove, with a few Cummingses and Goingses to twist the truth around, and stampede through our country?? I am nostalgic for Teresa May, though I am a confirmed left-of-left, Labour member, and will be all my life.
I listened to all the news programmes today. No one had the courage to say that after predicting a 7 point advantage for Tories, they had lost Batley and Spens to Labour. In spite of that unspeakable Galloway diverting 22 percent of the vote his way. Do the Muslims in the constituency feel they can trust him? What does he want from all the damage he manages?
Sky was marginally more professional than the BBC. Our Bought By Conservatives channel that we all pay for. Kay Burley was a star when she interviewd the Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party. Like a terrier she got her teeth well into the discussion and tossed the woman about like a wet rag. Well Done, Kay.
All the channels want to focus on the leadership discourse within the Labour party. So Labour wins a hard-fought election, I am jumping up and down in the room, chasing up my daughter, who joins me in the celebratory tea-and-toast, and the news is trying to concentrate on Keir's recent problems.
I am a confirmed Corbynite. But I will be loyal to any Labour leader who is trying to walk the tight-rope that is Westminister politics. BBC tried very hard to make Diane Abbot to say something derogatory about Starmer. But Diane showed breeding and metal; she out-talked the BBC interviewer, who repeatedly tried to force her into a corner. Hats off Diane.
Has Fox news bought BBC up? If so, may I have my share of the loot?
