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I realise this is my confirmation bias at work but…
the CEO of the Vegetarian Society was very good on #r4today a few minutes ago on the pending EU legislation that food manufacturers may only call a sausage a sausage or a burger a burger if it has meat in it.
“A solution to a problem that doesn’t exist”
Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms. Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate. We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Trump is in crisis, MAGA base turning on him over links with Jeffrey Epstein & the whole country is feeling his total failure to get the cost of living under control. His response? Get the headlines back where he wants them - ramping up the extreme racist scapegoating #r4today
It’s the same weakness as has infected our politics in the UK too, although he’s better at projecting a sense of confidence when he does it. A dithering mess, forced to row back on every principle, desperately proving their toughness by kicking immigrants. Contemptible. #r4today
It’s the same weakness as has infected our politics in the UK too, although he’s better at projecting a sense of confidence when he does it. A dithering mess, forced to row back on every principle, desperately proving their toughness by kicking immigrants. Contemptible. #r4today
Trump is in crisis, MAGA base turning on him over links with Jeffrey Epstein & the whole country is feeling his total failure to get the cost of living under control. His response? Get the headlines back where he wants them - ramping up the extreme racist scapegoating #r4today
Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms. Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate. We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting. Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth? For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
…Giving up all pretence of both-sidesing it, Sean not only let Exxon paint the picture it wanted unchallenged, he then asked some capital fund analyst on to endorse it, talk shite about crypto and then act as a booster for AI chip fab.
Just fkn atrocious.
37 years into the IPCC era and we’re still pumping out ridiculously siloed journalistic bollocks. People like Sean are employed to make sure the dots stay as disconnected as possible
@urlyman is it #r4today business “news” that’s sparked your entirely justified fury?
It’s one of the main reasons I gave up listening to this disgraceful, propagandist shitshow some years ago.
@bbcnews ”flagship” news programme my arse. It’s a parody: a mechanism to sow ideological compliance while seeking to artificially generate the day’s news headlines by creating some court gossip “controversy”
As you say, it’s sole purpose is to hide reality & stifle analysis
BBC business news on #r4today is frequently bad journalism but today’s segment from 6:19 to 6:30 was especially awful even by Sean Farrington’s standards.
*While COP30 is going on* he essentially gave ExxonMobilUK Chair, Paul Greenwood, free rein to push his agenda unchallenged.
Truly a new low
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj9z
…Giving up all pretence of both-sidesing it, Sean not only let Exxon paint the picture it wanted unchallenged, he then asked some capital fund analyst on to endorse it, talk shite about crypto and then act as a booster for AI chip fab.
Just fkn atrocious.
37 years into the IPCC era and we’re still pumping out ridiculously siloed journalistic bollocks. People like Sean are employed to make sure the dots stay as disconnected as possible
BBC business news on #r4today is frequently bad journalism but today’s segment from 6:19 to 6:30 was especially awful even by Sean Farrington’s standards.
*While COP30 is going on* he essentially gave ExxonMobilUK Chair, Paul Greenwood, free rein to push his agenda unchallenged.
Truly a new low
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj9z
On #r4today, Jo White MP sounds like the most bland of Starmerites
Charles Murray is smoking crack on #r4today
@urlyman Both guests were poor, each pushing an agenda rather than illuminating the listeners with anything insightful. Moore’s weird ramble about Kristallnacht was baffling, Yelland did the equivalent of “I’ve got a massive secret but I’m not going to tell you”. A ridiculous waste of a ten-minute segment. #R4today
Charles Murray is smoking crack on #r4today
Credit to #r4today for excellent interviewing that made Chris Philp sound like the bottomless pit of stupidity that he is
I know it’s part of the journalistic schtick of #r4today to ask Devil’s Advocate questions but Justin Webb is a master of the most stupid ones. It’s hard not to conclude that this is not so much ‘good journalism’ as him being an utter numpty
Narrow siloed reporting and analysis everywhere. No attempt to and seemingly no interest in joining dots.
On #r4today’s business segment, discussion of growth levels of an economy “muddling through” and no exploration of what levels of growth are structurally needed to keep expectations standing up (e.g. NHS, pensions), and therefore what to consider if that is not being and will not be met.
And in my timeline, an article about solar growth and the “end of coal” in Australia but…
Imagine being such a class A asshole that your main motivation for wanting peace was to get a prize for it
…talking of assholes, #r4today just broadcast a snippet of a sycophantic interview with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who says he “loves helping the world”.
Gee, Jamie, thanks for your ‘help’ making rich fuckers richer at the expense of a future worth having.
Listening to Luke Pollard on #r4today was like listening to an LLM that has dug itself into a deep semantic hole on migration.
Except, to be fair, an LLM would sound more intelligent and pivot its way out of it
All three top stories on the BBC News app are about migration. The top story on #R4Today just now was also about migration.
Is this (as the #R4Today presenter has just claimed) the media reflecting the public’s interest, or is it in fact the public parroting back a media obsession?
Personally, I’m sick to death of this one issue crowding out everything else going on in the world. Repost if you agree.
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