Labour leadership

[treelover]

tory echo chamber commentariat are frothing. They don't get it, left behind on what's been happening among the masses in recent years, while they were braying at their jerk-circle dinner parties

Er, they have just won the election.

 

[treelover]

Years ago there was a Media Watch organisation. I think it was based in Glasgow(?). It needs to be reactivated. I've been doing my own monitoring of the main R4 and R5 news. It is incredible how many 'right-wing' commentators they have as so called 'guests'. Last night was a prime example with Rhod Sharp. He was discussing the Syrian conflict with none other than a military attaché from some American Naval School. Talk about right wing! And of course there was nobody to offer a counter argument. Who needs balance?

As for Kuenssberg, Smith, Robinson and Peinar. They like excitement and if I may be impolite: shit stirring. They seem to have forgotten what their precise role is and have confused it with making themselves 'the star' of the programme. As for today, the guest 'independent' commentator on the R5 Party coverage was non other than Dan Hodges!

I recall the Spitting Image of the press portrayed as pigs if anybody can remember them?

Greg Philo's Glasgow University Media Group, did the seminal 'Bad News' report, they did one very recently on how disabled people are being demonised by the media and the consequences(like to think I helped spur that on) sadly as usual not much reaction from civil society, etc.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Er, they have just won the election.

With 24% of the electorate standing behind them.

 

[brogdale]

Ever since the election I've thought about the term which is used in the Spanish speaking world to describe media monstering of leftist parties on behalf of the oligarchy, terrorismo mediático or media terrorism, maybe it's time for people to start to think of the media's behaviour in this country in the same way.

Yes, that's rather good. Perhaps terrorismo mediático oligarca?

 

[treelover]

Decent Ch4 News package on Corbyn and his work in Islington, interviewing supporters, constituents, etc, including a heavy metal band who endorse him!

also a 90 year WW2 Vet, who "Being jewish and a Zionist", said "he wouldn't never vote for him", and claimed he was physically assaulted.

 

[killer b]

Yes, that's rather good. Perhaps terrorismo mediático oligarca?

Chomsky & Herman call it flak

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Er, they have just won the election.

I was reffering to them totally not getting the movement that built toward capturing the Labour leadership. You are right about the election (it will have fuelled their arrogance and complacency too), but that's not what I was talking about.

 

[Orang Utan]

The dangerous lunatic manhandled a hysterical disabled woman off the stage today

 

[nino_savatte]

Laura Kuenssberg, Norman Smith, Nick Robinson - wished they'd fuck off the lot of 'em.

A proper triumvirate of shite.

 

[nino_savatte]

Years ago there was a Media Watch organisation. I think it was based in Glasgow(?).

It still exists. It's run by Greg Philo afaik. I'd love to get a job with them.

 

[danny la rouge]

It still exists. It's run by Greg Philo afaik. I'd love to get a job with them.

Glasgow Media Group is the name: Home

Zabo

 

[J Ed]

Manufacturing consent.... badly

 

[nino_savatte]

Manufacturing consent.... badly

I only got 0.54 into that and I couldn't take any more. Terrible. Simply terrible.

 

[J Ed]

Honestly for me it isn't even the words, as stupid as they are, it's the facial expressions.

 

[DotCommunist]

Thought Eamonn Holmes died years ago, but it turns out he's been hiding on a channel I never watch

 

[Santino]

 

[KeeperofDragons]

I only got 0.54 into that and I couldn't take any more. Terrible. Simply terrible.

I only got to 49 seconds, did I miss anything???

 

[nino_savatte]

I only got to 49 seconds, did I miss anything???

No.

 

[danny la rouge]

I got no seconds into it. It said Sky News; that's all I need to know.

 

[stethoscope]

Getaway before Corbyn's speech apparently..

 

[brogdale]

Getaway before Corbyn's speech apparently..

Obviously very busy people. Wonder what drew them away?

 

[gimesumtruf]

Corbyn trampled under foot by warmongers, so it looks like downward from here on in.

 

[treelover]

Yes, hit the fan today, Corbyn saying he "won't press the red button" is a red rag to the Sun, etc.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Cameron wouldn't press the button either. Neither would any of the talking heads on TV. Well, Maybe Kay Burley.

 

[kebabking]

Yes, hit the fan today, Corbyn saying he "won't press the red button" is a red rag to the Sun, etc.

or, to be more accurate, a red rag to well over half the PLP and almost all the shadow cabinet, a large wedge of the unions, and a significant majority of the electorate.

but yes, its all the meeja.....

 

[tony.c]

I don't usually watch party political broadcasts, but Corbyn came across quite well on ITV a moment ago.

 

[youngian]

Blair said he'd fire a nuclear warhead in the mid 90s. At the time I thought he was just batting the issue away for the sake of electoral expediency. Its not as if he is some kind of messianic nutter.

 

[marty21]

Corbyn trampled under foot by warmongers, so it looks like downward from here on in.

Don't agree , he's playing it well , he needed support to bin Trident , clearly hasn't got it , so hasn't made a fuss and tried to spin it , moves on , we'll see more of him in the battles he thinks he can win , no point wasting time on those he can't.

 

[laptop]

or, to be more accurate, a red rag to well over half the PLP and almost all the shadow cabinet, a large wedge of the unions, and a significant majority of the electorate.

but yes, its all the meeja.....

What on earth posessed Corbyn to say that? Does he have some kind of Christian impulse to testify, brother?

What would have been wrong with "As I understand it, the whole point of 'deterrence' is to keep everyone guessing!"?

 

[stethoscope]

Yes, hit the fan today, Corbyn saying he "won't press the red button" is a red rag to the Sun, etc.

So what? The Sun hates him anyway. Corbyn basically just saying what he's always believed about Trident (which I agree with). So all this fake shock and outrage amongst Blairites and the media, frankly is a load of toss.