...yes? (More seriously I think the media, & papers in particular, have abdicated any agenda-setting responsibility: when it comes to the national discourse, they see themselves as basically Facebook with a smaller user base.)
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I had an argument with a BBC chap who was asking me stupid questions about a non-story once. He said they have a responsibility to report on the non-story because "people are talking about it on Facebook." I was like, surely you ought to be leading the Facebook discourse, not following it? But no.
aug 26, 2025, 8:10 am • 2 0 • view
Then there's this thing I notice among higher profile journalists, where they low-key want the government to control how they do their jobs. They write books & articles about how terrible the state is, how Labour is failing etc., then complain on social media about "No. 10's poor media operation."
aug 26, 2025, 8:16 am • 1 0 • view
If you point out that the media is overwhelmingly hostile to this govt, the riposte is usually that if Starmer somehow (how is not specified) took firmer control of the information space, the hostility would lessen. That is not a serious argument, & I increasingly fear they are not serious people.
aug 26, 2025, 8:20 am • 2 0 • view
A real problem Labour has is a media narrative that says it's failed.
aug 26, 2025, 10:49 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, we became certain to lose the next election when we'd barely won the last one.
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