Former BBC reporter and producer Patrick Howse gives this account of the BBC's inability to cope with lying during the Brexit campaign and in the government thereafter. Some of it will sound very familiar to US readers. bylinetimes.com/2022/03/30/l...
Yes, very familiar — and even now.
The skills that make a good reporter don’t always make a good editor, and the latter became undervalued with pressure of new media. Traditional media scrambled to keep up and lost its way.
Yes, they throw a bunch of rubbish in the news to confuse the people and keep throwing it until they get what they want. Ruined America by trump and his right-wing death squad idiots 😑
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Sounds familiar.
As a Brit it's depressingly familiar. I feel the BBC's lost its teeth. It now acts merely as a peacemaker in an unfolding culture war. I think an important point is the scale of the lie. Over half the country lied to and voted for Brexit. The BBC decided not to alienate rather than inform. Very sad.
Journalism has reduced itself to an institutional vector for misinformation, particularly because editors have forgotten their roles as fact checkers. shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-2024-f...
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Extremely relatable and it could be written about us!
Something I don't think we consider enough is that the big media companies are more concerned with being accepted by the winning team than making sure the fascist team doesn't win.
Same bad actors