A.V. Deggar
The Fourth Estate should not be the Fifth Column. Some analysis on @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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- Compare the fates of Rebecca Long-Bailey & Louise Haigh—sidelined for tweeting & misreporting a stolen phone respectively—& The Lord Mandelson, who remains a peer of the realm despite lobbying the govt to change policy for the paedophile Jeffery Epstein. Is there something a bit two tier, here?
- This is easy. Extremism = clicks & eyes on content in the engagement economy Peter misunderstands who Question Time is for & who is it adjacent to. It created the media persona of Farage & platforms extremists like Melanie Phillips. It is video rightism. It sits alongside Piers Morgan on YouTube
- Effectively, I wrote about this for @bylinetimes.bsky.social three years ago, in a piece was on the mainstreaming of conspiracism—which is basically what Question Time does when it regularly platforms ethnonationalists or genocide-deniers.
