It’s perplexing that LBC axed Sangita Myska but gave Suella Braverman a show. It’s as if we’re not allowed to have voices of reason anymore. Where are the sane to go?
Sky News has done to poor Tommy what the media — and indeed he himself — have been doing to minorities for years. That is, editing and cutting an interview to make him say what they wanted him to say, rather than what he actually said in its proper context. “Why do you care?” you …
Talk radio cannot cope with callers ringing in with facts. The host does not want to hear of Western sponsored coups overturning democratically elected governments, however well-documented. There is no place for the historical record in this daily dose of propaganda, served up to the nation to keep us compliant. Only our enemies are ever …
My go-to content for relaxation after work tends to be of a mindless kind. Kris Harbour building his barn or fabricating a hydro-power installation. Darren Louis fixing a cowboy build or putting up an extension. Marius Hornberger engineering a fabulous contraption. Matt Perks fashioning another of his crazy inventions. As I say, mindless. But possibly …
Only those who follow the news religiously would know that stories we were once told were true have now been thoroughly discredited. For everyone else, those lies remain the truth, and still serve to justify the unjustifiable. Nothing now will change their minds. Who cares about truth and falsehood? It is what the people want …
Where’s our Sangita Myska? Our voice of reason on the radio. Even if you didn’t agree with her, she was balanced and fair, given to probing and thoughtful reflection. Don’t tell me politics killed our radio star.
Gideon Falter has my sympathy. I was once pulled over by the police in the middle of the night for driving extremely carefully, which they deemed suspicious. Fortunately, once they realised I was merely bringing my wife home from an evening spent in A&E, the second of the two officers admitted it was simply a …
In the end, people will believe whatever they want to believe. In one workplace a few years ago, my colleagues insisted on telling me what I believed. When I told them that was not in fact the case, they insisted on telling me I was wrong anyway. Jabbing at their newspaper, they told me that …
Thank goodness for Channel 4 News.
It is heartening that some media organisations like Reuters, AP and DW have begun fact-checking online (mis)information, to verify the accuracy and authenticity of videos and photos circulated on social media. A few years ago, I was obsessed with doing that myself, insistent on running every harrowing video or image shared by friends through a …
Only in the vivid imagination of the lunatic Alt-Right could the centre-right British newspaper, The Times, be considered the home of left-wing journalism. In the mainstream, Britain has two left-leaning daily newspapers: The Guardian and The Mirror, joined by The Observer and New Statesmen published weekly. The remaining assortment of fringe newspapers and magazines are …
Is it telling that under the Sky News footage on YouTube showing the moment a doorbell camera captures a dog setting on a 10 year-old boy, the broadcaster has turned comments off? Of course, for those of us used watching any kind of report involving Muslims, this is hardly a surprise. Good news or bad, …
On holiday, I sit down to read Susan Cain’s “Quiet” with a fresh pair of reading glasses. But moments later, I recall why I gave up on my last attempt several years ago: the minuteness of its text. This paperback seems to have been set in 8pt Garamond, and is barely legible even with glasses. …
Is that an act of desperation? The BBC running adverts for iplayer on YouTube? Sorry, despite paying the TV tax, I’ll stick with these independent content creators, thanks.
