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The vast number of British people who feel underserved and unheard” by existing television news channels.

Think we all know what that means.
 
Wouldn't surprise me if he's got duel citizenship so when the shit really hits the fan he can spout his BS across the channel whilst being wilfully blind to the consequences of his actions.
 
mat said:
Wouldn't surprise me if he's got duel citizenship so when the shit really hits the fan he can spout his BS across the channel whilst being wilfully blind to the consequences of his actions.
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We could revoke his U.K. citizenship then a la Begum.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
We could revoke his U.K. citizenship then a la Begum.
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I think that's a Crown prerogative? To invoke that I think he'd have to do something more than chair a news channel that we are free to not watch.
I'm seeing an all too familiar pattern of frame the thing as racist / rw / foolish, by extension those involved and those attracted to it too, in the naive hope that it will cease to be. Even if it is all these things and more it should be allowed to succeed or fail on its own merits. I watch quite a bit of RT where the state / sponsor influence is every bit as marked as Fox but people seem happy to let that rub along with no need for a BM thread of anticipatory outrage. I'm actually more concerned with the 'liberal' view that the general populace should not be trusted to make its own mind up. Unless we want to suppress free choice then sometimes we have to accept people might not make the choice we want or like - electing Hamas, the Muslim brotherhood, tory party, trump or voting brexit to name but a few instances of free choice and democracy 'going wrong'.
I prefer the point made by @Rascal a few posts back - we need to make sure our population can read and make informed judgements, not try to suppress, ban, or mock that which we dislike. Radicalisation happens when people are exposed to one viewpoint to the exclusion of all others - it doesn't particularly make a difference what that view is.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
I think that's a Crown prerogative? To invoke that I think he'd have to do something more than chair a news channel that we are free to not watch.
I'm seeing an all too familiar pattern of frame the thing as racist / rw / foolish, by extension those involved and those attracted to it too, in the naive hope that it will cease to be. Even if it is all these things and more it should be allowed to succeed or fail on its own merits. I watch quite a bit of RT where the state / sponsor influence is every bit as marked as Fox but people seem happy to let that rub along with no need for a BM thread of anticipatory outrage. I'm actually more concerned with the 'liberal' view that the general populace should not be trusted to make its own mind up. Unless we want to suppress free choice then sometimes we have to accept people might not make the choice we want or like - electing Hamas, the Muslim brotherhood, tory party, trump or voting brexit to name but a few instances of free choice and democracy 'going wrong'.
I prefer the point made by @Rascal a few posts back - we need to make sure our population can read and make informed judgements, not try to suppress, ban, or mock that which we dislike. Radicalisation happens when people are exposed to one viewpoint to the exclusion of all others - it doesn't particularly make a difference what that view is.
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It was a throw away remark. A quip.

If people want to watch the channel, they will. There isn’t much I can do about it. I’ll probably tune in to see what their rhetoric is going to be and make a judgement call on whether it’s worth my time.

I think it’ll be more populist than racist. The latter is far more likely to be implied, rather than overt.

It‘ll pitch all sorts of different groups against each other in all likelihood.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
It was a throw away remark. A quip.

If people want to watch the channel, they will. There isn’t much I can do about it. I’ll probably tune in to see what their rhetoric is going to be and make a judgement call on whether it’s worth my time.

I think it’ll be more populist than racist. The latter is far more likely to be implied, rather than overt.

It‘ll pitch all sorts of different groups against each other in all likelihood.
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Yes, clearly designed to latch onto the existential crisis that currently exists around notions of Britishness/Englishness/UK/Europe. Populist stuff is by definition popular, but not necessarily long lived - look at Farage since he lost his cause celebre by winning - the last thing any single issue populist ever actually wants.
 
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