dismantling the tabloid press is pretty much the #1 priority for uk progress right now
this
― the fog of "Wha...?" (stevie), Saturday, 12 November 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
corbyn should announce stringent press standards reform, he'd probably gain more support than he loses
Hmm.
On the one hand, anyone who speaks out against our red-topped kingmakers will not have a happy political career (though perhaps this can't get any worse than now for Corbyn)
On the other, it's interesting how both sides of the Brexit divide and now the Trump divide blame media misrepresentation: the alt-right's ire for "mainstream media", Trump's remarks on a "rigged press" and angry Brexiteers railing against the MSM while somehow seeing the tabloids as on their side against a conspiracy of metropolitan elites; the anti-Islamic German right's revival of favourite Nazi word "Lügenpresse" (and when I first read it I thought, hmm, yes, useful word for the tabloids, only to look up its history and feel itchy all over), which the internet tells me is now an alt-right buzzword outside Germany too
so maybe people from across the political spectrum could be brought onside, but "moar govt/quango intervention" is going to be hard to sell to the anti-elite and small-govt crowds, and obv the higher-ups know exactly what they're doing with this MSM meme
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 12 November 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
"So today I had to write abt Jo Cox""Ah that sucks man""Sucks even harder if you work for the Daily Hail, like me""How did you tend to the expectations of yr readership on this very delicate matter?""Immigrants, mate, immigrants. And that her death was her own fault."
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― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 24 November 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
Bold of the Daily Mail to suggest that anyone concerned about immigrants is now a terror suspect.
― nashwan, Thursday, 24 November 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link
can someone straight up firebomb the daily mail
― imago, Thursday, 24 November 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
also, hi theresa, i'm deadly serious
OMG, a Turkish person has a byline on that race-baiting - wonder if making someone w/foreign origins write shit about immigrants is the initiation rite at Dacre Towers?
― jane burkini (suzy), Thursday, 24 November 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
The Mail have spent so much time pandering to repulsive right wing extremists they can't suddenly change tack and condemn one who murders an MP in cold blood, oh no.
― calzino, Thursday, 24 November 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
How many angry articles have they written about the decline in social housing in the same time period? Just wondering...
― Matt DC, Thursday, 24 November 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
If he'd got bedroom taxed or sanctioned out of his home, worrying that the next tenants might be immigrants would be classic fuckwitted legitimate concernism.
― calzino, Thursday, 24 November 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
― calzino, Thursday, November 24, 2016 2:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
at this point i consider the mail and the sun to be part and parcel of the far right
― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
I don't see any other possible conclusion.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 24 November 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
I can confirm today that following that landmark libel case, Katie Hopkins has entered into an IVA to avoid bankruptcy. I knew for a while but could not say anything for legal reasons. The arbitrary defender of free speech didn't want anyone to know, ironically...— Jack Monroe #bootstrapcook (@BootstrapCook) September 15, 2018
― mark s, Saturday, 15 September 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
I've just spent the day at the hospital but that's cheered me right up that, thanks
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 15 September 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link