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> You aren't reading much press in the UK then. That's a pretty low-brow comment. >Openly anti-Brexit: the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Economist, Sky N
by jimnotgym 8y ago
> You aren't reading much press in the UK then.
That's a pretty low-brow comment.
>Openly anti-Brexit: the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Economist, Sky News, BBC
I completely disagree with you about the BBC as a whole. BBC Question Time, for instance have had Nigel Farage as a guest more times than anyone else! John Humphrys on radio 4s Today programme is so biased it is embarrassing. James O'Brian claims he had to leave Newsnight over the editorial policy.
On the others your 50/50 claim is to ignore completely the circulation. It seems like a very strange approach to count minority publications as having the same impact as The Daily Mail/Sun/Telegraph/Times/Express[0]. I don't recall seeing 'the man on the street' reading the FT or Economist recently?
The Guardian is also split on Brexit because there are so many pro-Corbyn writers who are defending his policy on Brexit (which is broadly speaking to not-oppose the government).
[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Un...
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> You're doing what so many EU fans do, you're repeating myths whilst believing you're above believing myths.
That is rather a slur on a large group of people. A group I certainly did not belong to before the referendum, however I was rather guided towards them by my instinctive dislike for the far-right and their anti-immigration demagoguery. My instinctive dislike for people who make statements like, "we have all had enough of experts", and people who paint lies on the side of buses and tour the country with them. People who break the spending rules at elections for instance[1]. I'm not going to argue this any further, this is HN not a political forum, but your comment stinks.
[1]:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/11/leaveeu-fined-70k-breaches-of-electoral-law-eu-referendum https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/11/leaveeu-fin...