Reply to: Extinction Rebelling Blocking Murdoch Press

[SueEllen]

Following BJ's embarrassing performance at PMQ's today I think we should use the correct terminology:

Crusty Left Wing Anarchists.

Regardless of one's politics the weekly dismantling of a QC dismantling Boris by asking the same question repeatedly until all Boris' canned responses are exhausted is fascinating to watch. Enjoyable.

A certain Ms Patel is inventing ways to arrest those Crusty Left Wing Anarchists. They don't help themselves though Climate protesters 'arrested at entrance to parliament' before PMQs | Metro News

[clearedforlanding]

Following BJ's embarrassing performance at PMQ's today I think we should use the correct terminology:

Crusty Left Wing Anarchists.

Regardless of one's politics the weekly spectacle of a QC dismantling Boris by asking the same question repeatedly until all Boris' canned responses are exhausted is fascinating to watch. Enjoyable.

[NotAllThere]

- The newspapers that were blocked were Murdoch-owned News Corp’s titles, including the Sun, Times, Sun on Sunday and Sunday Times, as well as the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the London Evening Standard. All Tory supporting titles...

The Times might be Tory supporting, but definitely not the current shower supporting. Despite their attempts to ingratiate themselves.

[SueEllen]

I think we can clear this up now.

This was a totalitarian restriction of the freedom of the press, but only in a a very specific and limited way.

So that's OK!

It failed as other newspaper groups including those that have leftie titles e.g. The Mirror started print runs for them so they could get some papers out.

What protesters don't realise is journalists are protective of their own if they are proper journalists and not the likes of Farrage.

[BlasterBates]

All seem to have disappeared, presumably now waiting for their court cases and paying fines before venturing out again.

The key seems to be to leave them for months to wait for their court case to come up and give them vague threats of huge fines.

[Old Greg]

I think we can clear this up now.

This was a totalitarian restriction of the freedom of the press, but only in a a very specific and limited way.

So that's OK!

[vetran]

One of their journalists: Nigel Farage | The Guardian

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Contributors | The Guardian

[darmstadt]

The Manchester Slaver free and unbiased? oh me sides are splitting!

One of their journalists: Nigel Farage | The Guardian

[vetran]

They're still the press regardless

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The Manchester Slaver free and unbiased? oh me sides are splitting!

[vetran]

I've always thought that of Huffington Post but they seem to be able to poke their noses in many places.

They are the lefty opposition to Guido. They also sometimes publish a decent story.

[NotAllThere]

Good boy, darmie. It does indeed work both ways.

You should be free to indoctrinate yourself with the Canary and the Canary should be free to indoctrinate you.

And only the Canary. Otherwise you might pick up some ungoodthink.

[jamesbrown]

Freedom of the press eh...

Good boy, darmie. It does indeed work both ways.

You should be free to indoctrinate yourself with the Canary and the Canary should be free to indoctrinate you.

[darmstadt]

They're still the press regardless

Roughly in order of their appearance in your diatribe:
The Huffington Post (I thought that was a wind-up, but I looked it up anyway) is basically someone's blog, with contributions. CUK is more deserving of a Downing St. Press Pass (perhaps not).

GMB is a vehicle for Piers Moron's ego, which is enough to avoid it unless you MUST keep up with what's happening in Love Island, and how Meghan and Harry are coping with lockdown in their 16-bed California mansion.

The newspaper which claims to be completely free and independent is the Graun, and the only papers they beat in the circulation figures are the Scottish titles (National newspaper ABCs: Full figures for November 2019 - Press Gazette). More than a million more people buy the Mail daily than the Graun.
We do have a free press, but we also have a free population, and they are not choosing to buy the Graun.
As long as Germany has a free press, you should be OK. Mind you, there's nothing we Brits like more than lectures on freedom from the Mainland.

Edit: Meghan and Harry's mansion doesn't have 16 bedrooms, it actually has 16 bathrooms, and 9 bedrooms. Why would one need more bathrooms than bedrooms? Definitely a question for Mr Moron on tomorrows GMB...

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[ladymuck]

I've always thought that of Huffington Post but they seem to be able to poke their noses in many places.

[Mordac]

Freedom of the press eh...

- https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...ml#post2805156, same classification as Russia

- 35th in the world: 2020 World Press Freedom Index | RSF

- Was not too bad, got worse under Tories, got better, then worse under Johnson: • United Kingdom: press freedom index 2013-2020 | Statista

- A number of outlets including the Daily Mirror, Huffington Post, The Independent, etc. are excluded from Downing Street press briefings not too say that not one Cabinet Minister has appeared on GMB in over 130 days due to the criticism of CV-19 handling

- The newspapers that were blocked were Murdoch-owned News Corp’s titles, including the Sun, Times, Sun on Sunday and Sunday Times, as well as the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the London Evening Standard. All Tory supporting titles which explains why there has been such a backlash by the government. Five reasons why we don’t have a free and independent press in the UK and what we can do about it | openDemocracy

Roughly in order of their appearance in your diatribe:
The Huffington Post (I thought that was a wind-up, but I looked it up anyway) is basically someone's blog, with contributions. CUK is more deserving of a Downing St. Press Pass (perhaps not).

GMB is a vehicle for Piers Moron's ego, which is enough to avoid it unless you MUST keep up with what's happening in Love Island, and how Meghan and Harry are coping with lockdown in their 16-bed California mansion.

The newspaper which claims to be completely free and independent is the Graun, and the only papers they beat in the circulation figures are the Scottish titles (National newspaper ABCs: Full figures for November 2019 - Press Gazette). More than a million more people buy the Mail daily than the Graun.
We do have a free press, but we also have a free population, and they are not choosing to buy the Graun.
As long as Germany has a free press, you should be OK. Mind you, there's nothing we Brits like more than lectures on freedom from the Mainland.

Edit: Meghan and Harry's mansion doesn't have 16 bedrooms, it actually has 16 bathrooms, and 9 bedrooms. Why would one need more bathrooms than bedrooms? Definitely a question for Mr Moron on tomorrows GMB...