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The British media, The Times included, have had a big part to play in all of this. For them to behave with their usual convenient amnesia of their past reportin
by hnhg 3y ago
The British media, The Times included, have had a big part to play in all of this. For them to behave with their usual convenient amnesia of their past reporting is a bit too much for me, at least, to accept. It just isn't fit for purpose any more. (I tried subscribing to The Times not long ago on a special offer and cancelled my subscription long before it was over. It is immensely pro-Tory and obediently unquestioning of the government. Just today I saw on their front page an article implicitly shilling for the government against encryption).
- sys_64738 3y agoA more apt description is the Murdoch Media as he has control of all the mouthpieces that Tory voters look at.
- hnhg 3y agoDon't forget the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and the Daily Star. Then, take a look at how the composition of the BBC's board changed starting under Cameron's administration. Until recently, their Chairman was Richard Sharp, who donated more than 400k to the tories, and was forced to resign for helping Boris secure a 800k loan. The Director General is Tim Davie, who ran for a seat as a Tory councillor once. Check out the others on the board, many have had positions with some relationship to the tories. Also, what about Ofcom, the regulatory body? Their chairman is Michael Grade, a Conservative life peer. And now we have GB News emerging (aka KGB news), backed by gulf money but also some major tory donors. This isn't healthy, the UK cannot afford an implicit one-party system. Democracy cannot function like this.