‘Parts of the media and political class know mass death in Gaza cannot be obscured for much longer, not even after Israel has barred foreign journalists from the enclave and murdered most of the Palestinian journalists trying to record the genocide.
Cynical political and media actors are trying to get in their excuses before it is too late to show remorse.‘

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-wall-silence-finally-starting-crack-why

@coldwarsteve on the media love-in with Reform.

#UKPolitics
#Reform
#Greens
#UKMedia

"the BBC behaves much like Starmer’s government: appeasing critics on the right and far right, while suppressing the left. In doing so, it undermines its own survival. When it faces an existential crisis, as both Labour and the BBC might in 2029, who will defend it? The right – and the plutocrats the right exists to champion – want it gone, while the left now sees it as a hostile force. It is appeasing itself to death."

#BBC
#UKPolitics
#UKMedia

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/consistently-appeasing-platforming-right-bbc-undermines-own-survival

Something not quite right with this headline... can't put my finger on it.....

As #UKMedia gets excited about warm, sunny days: #murderbyclimate #globalsouth
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/india-and-pakistan-already-sweltering-in-new-normal-heatwave-conditions?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Birmingham Live: the clickbait is getting desperate.

An "Oxford-educated psychologist" named Barbara Santini duped the gullible British press over the last few years - she probably doesn't exist, being a PR invention of an online sex toy store.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/19/questions-raised-over-barbara-santini-expert-much-quoted-in-uk-press

"The term silent majority seems particularly apposite when it comes to public debate in the UK. The print media has always been heavily skewed to the right, but the broadcast media has tried to be impartial. Impartiality in practice has focused on being even handed between the two main political parties. When the two main parties promote socially conservative policies and argue against tax increases to improve public service provision, that can mean that a social liberal and economic centre or left point of view struggles to get much airtime. The BBC's obession with Nigel Farage also does not help."

#UKPolitics
#UKMedia

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-new-silent-majority.html?m=1

Journalists often need to speak to experts for their stories. Money traditionally doesn't change hands — the expert, whether they're a political scientist or a dermatologist, builds their media profile, while the journo gets the quotes they need. But according to the Press Gazette, there are now some agencies that charge brand PRs to make those connections, and the "experts" they are quoting may be AI, rather than real people. "Laura Purkess, consumer features editor and consumer champion for The Sun, says she receives what appears to be AI-written copy in large batches from one particular PR following Responsesource requests. The PR has no surname or agency name and frequently posts three or more ready-written comments on virtually any subject within less than an hour of the request being posted."

https://flip.it/q9eWHO

Birmingham Live has been peddling this article constantly for two snowless months. Every so often they change the dateline to keep it being picked up by the web browser home pages. Come Midsummer they'll all be wearing parkas and mukluks up the Smethwick Alps.

#UKMedia
#BritainShivers

Migrant working from home in Dubai claims problems at Heathrow due to site engineers and electricians working from home but mercifully forgets to blame immigrants this time.

#UKMedia

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/03/21/talk-tv-feather-ruffler-isabel-oakeshott-blamed-the-on-going-heathrow-shutdown-on-working-from-home-and-was-owned-into-next-week/

Let's see how the 'rational, non-hyperbolic, common sense' channel are describing the shut-down of Heathrow Airport.

No other airports or seaports exist now seemingly.

And yes, the supposed 'Doctor' (Renée Hoenderkamp) is again in a right-wing TV studio not being a doctor.

And the English media complain about Ferries! At least we need the ferries, those aircraft carriers, especially given the US behaviour are a waste of ocean.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/tanks-warships-uk-defence-billions-waste

Our political journalists are so astute they have to be slapped in the face with an increasingly rancid bloater for ten years before they have the exclusive scoop that they can smell fish.

#UKMedia
#Trump

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/03/10/andrew-neils-finally-changed-his-mind-about-donald-trump-and-ended-up-owned-somewhere-into-the-next-millennium/

Good grief.

*That* is how far Friday's Vance and Trump Tantrum Show crossed the line.

Trump's and Vance's toddler diplomacy has cost them their natural supporters overseas.

#Trump
#USPolitics
#UKMedia

#gaza
#israel #propaganda
#UKmedia
@palestine

"Former IDF chief of staff [general Kohavi] met with Britain’s top journalists to promote Israel’s war on Gaza"
"The meetings took place with Katherine Viner, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Richard Burgess, director of news content at the BBC, and Roula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times"
General Kohavi proudly justifies attacks on pro-Palestine journalists.
Some shocking details in the article.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-guardian-editors-private-meetings-with-israeli-general-kohavi/

So I've seen Josh Howie 'apologised' on air to 'LGB' people, and as someone who decided to see what rhetoric GB News was going to be pumping out - and hardly do now as everything gets more horrific - I've seen him say that LGBTQ+ people include paedophiles on at least one occasion well before this time.

As there is so much more content, you have to ask just how much more of this agitprop are he and the rest of them there doing that no-one catches? This is no mistake.