There is some rather excellent and flourishing journalism on the left. Novara media for example.
Had a look at Novarra media's Wiki page and can now understand why no one would put any money into a new left wing paper. "Fully automated luxury communism" I kid you not!
It is good Journalism though and pretty honest and unbiased. I'm a bit of a lefty though, so I suppose bound to think it's ok ;-)
All anyone wants is unbiased journalism that gives us the news and lets us make our own minds up. Once you add debate to news it is no longer news it becomes propaganda.
What a weird post. The far right are obsessed with calling the BBC, Channel 4, Mirror, Guardian, Independent etc “lefties”.
And here with have thread about the BBC being a 'tory tool'. Maybe the fact that both lw and rw folk feel the BBC are biased against them means the BBC are actually getting it right?
I don’t think they are biased. But they have to try so hard to show both sides of every story that they end up with a “false equivalence” position.
For me the bottom line was where this policy led to James O'Brien quit because in discussing trade in terms of Brexit on Newsnight he was made to have former Director General of the WTO pascal Lamy and the BBC management insisted that opposing him with wisdom was Andrea Leadsome an ardent Brexiter who even to this day displays her ignorance on world trade and international relations - its like the BBC insisting that Pep has to face a You Tube football vlogger to discuss tactics and recruitment but accept the vlogger is an equal
In a similar way, they had respected scientists discussing climate change with politicians who were climate change deniers. Fortunately they didn't give publicity to many Covid deniers five years ago.
I've heard of Pascal Lamy and Andrea Leadsome but who is James O'Brien and why is he more qualified to talk about Trade than Lamy and Leadsome?
Perfectly put. Who do you trust to tell the truth if you know the paper/channel you are viewing is biased. And biased both ways, apparently, for the BBC.
He (James O'Brien) is right about everything. He's actually a published author who has specifically written books on being right all the time and never being wrong, so it's hard to say he's not more qualified than lamy and leadsome.
Thnks for that. Sounds perfect for our politics and probably the next Farage complete with a merry band of followers!
You can listen to him every day on LBC then make up your mind about what he is and what he stands for.
