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Stunning and devastating opening from Newsnight tonight.
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Liz Truss once shared that Blank Space by Taylor Swift was here favourite song. Cue of the close of Channel 4 News last night. You really could not make this stuff up.
https://youtu.be/VOo3DlqAhGk
Ouch. Newsnight have to be applauded (terrible song though).
But the highlight this week to me was C4 Krishnan Guru-Murthy’s indiscretion in his tussle with Steve Baker.
Very rude but it sums my contempt at least and many others too I imagine!!
Guru-Murthy was rewarded, though, seven days unpaid holiday. He’ll be back soon. Baker wants him sacked, but he didn’t say it on air. Lots of people cheering for Guru-Murthy. Haven’t heard anyone agreeing with Baker.
Much as i loathe Truss & her lot, this little clip is nothing to be proud of – but typical for the execrable Newsnight.
Do media students really need to see how to lead people by the nose like this? Does our State Broadcaster need to provide it? They are, after all, one of the main reasons she was there in the first place (via their atrocious fluffing of Bozo in their 2019 GE coverage – and if you’ve not seen it you really must check out Al Jazeera’s ‘Labour Files’ documentaries – the revelations of which have all been steadfastly ignored by Newsnight and the rest of the diabolical institution).
With respect, yes it does need to do this
Just Newsnight piling in with the rest of the media pack. Truss was fair game & Newsnight piled in when it thought it was safe. I found it amusing and the talentless Mrs Trussed got what she deserved. Monstering of people is sometimes useful – & might give the other village idiots that hope to become PM, pause for thought (probably not Johnson – he has never cared what people think).
However, your second point is worthy of some excavation. Rather than focusing only on the BBC, British media in general needs to be looked at. The only paper of note that has had an article on the Al Jaz documentaries is the Independent. Dead silence from the rest – perhaps indicative of their belief that Liebore will win, get into power & like good little dogs they are wagging their tails in anticipation – don’t ruffle the water etc. Starmer will be bigged up and UK serfs will be groomed as they always have been.
Of course, if there was more robust questioning of politicos by what passes for the UK media, we would not have got to where we are. Indeed, there would be no Breixt, no Farage or Camoron & B.Liar would have departed sooner rather than later. That’s the problem – a sycophantic media & by extention a groomed population. Pathetic.
@Mike Parr
Since I don’t see UK television, this is not my fight; & while I think moderately well of T Swift as a singer, her songs are not really my cup of nettle soup. But Professor Murphy has a point about needing to point out how low the Tories have sunk (cf. P Toynbee: “Truss is gone. The Tory experiment is dying. Kill it off. Then don’t forgive and don’t forget.” in the Grauniad)
Yet you and he are right about British media in general – as with the failure to actually read the Forde report on the Labour party and the monstering of Corbyn. Not to mention that it was obvious where Blair was going from very early on, it didn’t need the WMD fiasco/tragedy; but even quite intellligent people allowed themselves to be lulled by media misdirection.
I have recently subscribed to Byline Times and I’m really getting into it.
I also make liberal use of Richard’s Twitter link to roam a little wider (thank you Richard).
Also got the new book about austerity lined up (probably the last for a long time).
At the moment contemplating the money supply…………………it’s not equality or inequality that is going to explain what is going on anymore to me (people accept it or can get used to it) , it’s the problem that the money supply needs democratising once more in my view – that to me is the best way to try to explain matters.
And the state – as sovereign currency producer – is the way in which that democratisation can take place. It’s just that the rich seem to have commandeered that function just for itself – they are monopolising it.
As for Truss, the only weapon we have sometimes in the face of a dumbed-down media
is ridicule. What else is there?
Violence? Despair?
Well, there you go.
But back to the media – it’s the negation of knowledge, the ablation of historical facts about human development and the open mouthed acceptance of the false narratives that drives me mad.
When did good journalism decide to dump ‘going and looking’ in the public interest?
PSR
re democratisation of money
ive been thinking about how to find an effective way of explaining MMT & the ” magic money tree ” approach.
i can understand that MMT itself can be seen as a-political but the nature of money seems very political.
perhaps the starting point to explain money to the lay person is to take the politacal route
Mary Mellor in her book ” money “makes the point strongly that sovereignty is an integral ingredient in the use of money — & in a democracy that means US the PEOPLE
we have allowed the private banking/financial sectors to privatise money whereby the state became a borrower like everybody else
she suggested that the priority in the democratisation of money should be that the creation of money should be to serve the people
a secondary function would be that of the private/financial sectors to serve its trading/commercial activities without relying on the state to bail them out in a crisis thus avoiding ” moral hazard “
I like Mary’s work
Not MMT, but well worth reading