The impact of the £20 million Murdoch investment in a new TV station with Andrew Neil and Nigel Farage is bigger than the invested money.
Imagine every journalist in the land will be invited for interviews to join the new station.
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Imagine every journalist in the land will be invited for interviews to join the new station.
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The media industry has suffered in the last years, many redundancies. Journalists have families to feed, mortgages to pay.
They will keep that in mind whether they will join or not the new bully TV channel. They want to keep their options open...
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They will keep that in mind whether they will join or not the new bully TV channel. They want to keep their options open...
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Others, who will not consider joining on principle, might not want to be subject to Andrew Neil and Nigel Farage bullying so they will go soft on subjects dear to the bully boys and their billionaire owner.
So the self censorship will only grow not to upset the bully boys.
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So the self censorship will only grow not to upset the bully boys.
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Politicians will unfortunately come to their shows and lending them public acceptability and free advertising. Remember Alex Salmond, the guy who wanted to be the first PM of an independent country accepted a job with Russia Today.
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Experts in various areas will also join. They will lie to themselves that they will keep their independence whilst pocketing money and lending acceptability to the bully boys.
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So what we can do is just to boycott the bully boys and ask forcefully that no one joins them in any capacity.
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