Iāve been joking repeatedly that if they get Dacre in at the top of Ofcom, ensuring TV becomes a government mouthpiece from the top down, with Kuenssberg rumoured to be departing the Beeb they could DMGT could dump Geordie Greig and parachute her in at the Daily Mail and get things back in order as the Mail being the official written mouthpiece of the Tory partyā¦
Wellā¦
Moves to further control the media in the UK do not strike me as a laughing matter, Iām afraid.
There is a general dumbing down and drift to the right in the UK media - Iāve just watched BBC news discuss the Amazon vs Visa debacle with zero insight or analysis as to why the charges are going up or the inconsistencies in continuing to accept Amex and Mastercard (though I presume Amazon will have done a deal in both cases) as well as completely missing the point regarding Apples āself repairā programme that was announced yesterday.
Iām not convinced that itās as simple as a drift to the right, but thereās definitely a drift to the bottom, and the BBC website is becoming filled with clickbait headlines and a lack of both clear statements of detail and insight into situations. It does look more frequently as though thereās a mix of news and ākeep calm and carry onā propaganda appearing.
Actually I think you wil find it is gone left and will get worse as the socialists take over more and more until we are left with Marxism. If you keep tabs on the US and the Aus and NZ news you will see this trend, worst being in NZ. There is no decent major news outlet on the tv that is unbiased because they have become twirly box tickers (The adverts say it all). GB news excluded but that is only a matter of time. How the new Murdoch channel will fare remains to be seen.
Iād be truly fascinated to see any actual evidence you have for this view Rocam!
Meanwhile - hereās some genuinely independent evidence to the contraryā¦
I donāt have a problem with politicians being asked difficult questions but the questioning should be done by political journalists with at least some knowledge of how Westminster and government works. This morning I watched Naga Munchetty belittle a government minister (Dominic Raab), she constantly talked over him and was not in the slightest bit interested in what he was saying, is this what we really want to see when ministers are interviewed?
I love it when difficult question are asked but like you it has too be done by political journalists and not box tickers such as naga manschussy who i find to be a dispicable hypocrite. Unfortunately the MSM channels have become very PC, boxtickers and are only interestested in diversity et al and this affects the whole of the news broadcasting. The decent ones are all jumping or being pushed in favour of the said useless uninformed and inexperienced box tickers.
Geoff, only my views. It is obvious, that you as a hard core socialist wouldnt see this but I am neither Left or Right due to the fact there are some good points on both sides but also bad points. So no i dont have evidence only that what I see and hear on the TV news channels.
Itās not too difficult to belittle Raab, heās an arse (technical term).
Munchetty treats any government minister in the same way, sheās just plain rude like Kay Burley on Sky. A decent political journalist from any of the tv networks would be smart enough to skewer Raab or Hancock etc without resorting to rudeness because they know the subject, Munchetty should stick to fawning over film stars.
To be fair given the opportunity I think I would be very rude indeed to most of the current ministers!
I just find it bizarre that you hold āviewsā that are contrary to evidence - and yet donāt see yourself as right-wing.
It seems that you believe - as I do - that people on the left base their views objectively on evidence and rational discourse - and people on the right base theirs on prejudice and irrationality. Fair enough - we agree - but how is it possible to both aligne oneself explicitly with the right - by saying in response to a request for evidence ājust my viewsā - ie. my views do not depend on evidence - and claim not the be right-wing?
If you see your āviewsā as outside of rational, evidence-based discourse, arenāt you explicitly aligning yourself with the irrationality of the political right, where indeed prejudice (forming an opinion without recourse to reality) - is normalised - along with other anti-rational and anti-evidential conceptions like āmight is rightā, ādivine orderā, āwhite supremacyā, etc?
(Not to mention thinking GBNews or Murdoch might be less biased than other UK media!)
I agree Mat, I think Patel (who would be living in poverty in Kampala but for the generosity of the British people) is hammering refugees, millionaire arse licker (ambulance crisis, what ambulance crisis) Javid, cheese enthusiast Truss - really if one just looks down the list that are pathetic, lying rejects.
You know Tim, I donāt even know who Munchetty is. But I do know Raab is a lying little shit so I donāt care who calls the bastard out 
There is only so much gaslighting one can take. At the moment most ministers are back to the same (when the s**t hits the fan) script! They donāt like it up em.
I donāt know who she is either - but Iām beginning to warm to her!
Iāll check her out too Geof. Iāve enough of the Kuenssberg and Peston camp followers.