Yeah, get all that Do we think that the BBC will start basing what they do on what they read on here though? I think that is a stretch as we've all seen the way they have gone over the past decade and its not great
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Imagine for a moment that the government of the day can and consistently has shaped the way the BBC covers things and that also, what people imbibe without thinking does change what they think is interesting!
sep 1, 2025, 12:05 pm • 6 0 • view
It took the Tories a very long time and a Brexit to basically force the BBC to stop calling out bollocks and start doing this "well, there are two sides to this story" I suspect Labour see that a fight they can't win
sep 1, 2025, 12:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Ok, cool, everything is irrevocably bad, there's no point, I should just hope that whichever party flunky gets given my stuff after the takeover in 2034 likes what we've done with the interior decoration.
sep 1, 2025, 12:09 pm • 6 0 • view
It's just wild that on the day when Starmer is ripping up his Downing Street operation people on here will still go to bat for the idea that the decisions it has made and not made are the best possible choices.
sep 1, 2025, 12:10 pm • 9 0 • view
Hells bells, that wasn't what I meant at all Labours comms are all over the place 100% I just don't see them posting on here instead of twitter helps them in that respect, though I would say it would certainly force a lot of stuff to move
sep 1, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It's never comms. But also, I genuinely don't understand what about me and Rob's points could be more clear than it is a) is not just 'post on here' and also b) why that would change things.
sep 1, 2025, 12:15 pm • 4 0 • view
There isn't some vast conspiracy of people going 'ah, and now I must write something that fits Reform's narrative', but you do for instance, have people taking it as read that the salience of crime is up when it isn't, because X is awash with it and that's where they spend time.
sep 1, 2025, 12:16 pm • 14 0 • view
If the government broke news on literally any other platform, more people would move onto those platforms, and that would change the ambient assumptions of what is and isn't worthwhile.
sep 1, 2025, 12:16 pm • 23 2 • view
This is your field more than mine Stephen so happy to agree with you
sep 1, 2025, 12:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Sorry to not be more usefully illustrative, though! A good example is - a lot of my ideas for pieces come from bouncing off ideas on here or articles I discover on here (one big push factor for me was I was just finding X less and less helpful because it doesn't care about any of my policy interests
sep 1, 2025, 12:24 pm • 7 0 • view
Think it’s underplayed how much producers at the BBC, Sky and Global look at X, and think that’s the story, and why the government moving away, would help get that groups attention to here or wherever works
sep 1, 2025, 12:27 pm • 3 0 • view
I was talking about the BBC and the media but you are right that there are real dangers End of the day, I firmly believe that the racist ***** currently running the discourse are in a massive minority and that it will level out but I get the concerns
sep 1, 2025, 12:12 pm • 1 0 • view