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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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While audience figures for controversial right-wing TV channels Murdoch's #TalkTV & the Dubai-based-multimillionaire-funded GB "News" are piss poor, bosses care more about “impact” than rankings, & other right-wing media organisations relentlessly amplify video clips.
For example, TalkTV & GB "News" clips appear & are amplified on @Youtube & social media platforms.

TalkTV said clips from Piers Morgan's Rishi Sunak interview had attracted more than two million social views by midday on Friday. But we know very little about who watches them.
Morgan’s interview with Sunak is not his biggest show to date in terms of viewership. His launch night interview with Donald Trump averaged 319,000 viewers, according to Barb figures. And the first of his two-part interview with Cristiano Ronaldo averaged 334,000 over the hour.
Nadine Dorries' TalkTV show, “Friday Night with Nadine”, in which she interviewed lawbreaking liar Boris Johnson, was not as popular as Morgan's interview with Sunak, averaging just 52,000 viewers over the hour, according to Barb (Broadcaster Audience Research Bureau) figures.
However, it was TalkTV's best-ever performance in this slot & was three times the average number of viewers it has previously attracted at this hour. It came in ahead of GB "News" (which averaged around 10,000) @SkyNews (37,600), but well behind the @BBC News channel (142,700).

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Feb 18
This looks brilliant!

The @BBC has commissioned new drama 'The Way', written by James Graham (Sherwood, Quiz), directed by Michael Sheen (Good Omens, Staged), & co-created by Sheen, Graham & Adam Curtis (The Power Of Nightmares, HyperNormalisation).

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It is developed and executive produced by Bethan Jones (War & Peace, Les Miserables).

The Way (3×60’) is Wales-based company Red Seam’s first production, made in association with Little Door Productions, and will film in and around Port Talbot later this year.
The Way “taps into the social & political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town. I’m such an admirer of Adam & James’ work, so to create this project with them in these extraordinary times has been thrilling”. - Michael Sheen
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Feb 18
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On #bbcqt, Robert Jenrick INSISTED that #Rwanda was "a safe country". Bullshit. The truth is, Rwanda is one of the most autocratic, authoritarian, & repressive regimes ON EARTH, ranked 150th out of 179 countries on the Index of Liberal Democracy.

The 2021 US State Dept of 'Democracy, Human Rights & Labour' report on Human Rights Practices in #Rwanda makes it clear that #Rwanda is anything but "a safe country".

Significant human rights issues included:

-harsh & life-threatening conditions in some detention facilities;
-unlawful & arbitrary killings by the government

-forced disappearance by the government

-torture by the government

-arbitrary detention

-political prisoners or detainees

-politically motivated reprisal against individuals located outside the country

Does this sound "safe"?
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Feb 17
Speaking on GB "News" (which now specialises in promoting conspiracy theories & grotesque rhetoric from some of Britain's most extreme & divisive voices), divisive damaged crank Carole Malone said British people are being "spat on" by "antidemocratic treacherous elites".
In 2009, complaints made about a Malone column in Murdoch's News Of The World, which claimed that illegal immigrants receive "free cars", led to the newspaper being forced to issue a clarification that "illegal immigrants do not receive such a benefit & apologise for the error".
Malone made malicious comments against Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills (separated from McCartney in 2006 & divorced in 2008). In a 2007 piece, Malone claimed Mills faked crying during an interview on GMTV to sway the public's opinion of her during the divorce proceedings.
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Feb 17
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After last night's appalling episode of #bbcqt, today I've emailed @BBCR4Feedback to express my concerns about Fiona Bruce's inability to properly or fairly chair @bbcquestiontime panels, & about the disproportionate number of right-wing panellists.

Full email below:
"I'm a @BBC supporter & appreciate that @BBCr4Feedback makes an important contribution to society in helping to maintain the BBC's public service ethos & hard-won reputation for providing impartial, high-quality & distinctive output & services which inform, educate, & entertain."
"I'm writing to raise concerns - articulated and shared by thousands on social media - about @bbcquestiontime.

My concerns are twofold:

First, Fiona Bruce's chairing of BBC Question Time is, at best, unacceptably poor."
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New, interesting, & timely free to read research article: "‘The jobs all go to foreigners’: a critical discourse analysis of the Labour Party's ‘left-wing’ case for immigration controls."

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Influenced by the Discourse Historical Approach, the paper is based on an analysis of 86 public interventions by Labour figures, over a 6-month period, delivered in speeches, articles and essays.
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#Authoritarians dislike novelty, diversity, & complexity.

#Telegraph:

"Don't call us far-right - we are just talking COMMON SENSE!"

'Govt says DOCTORS MUST MAKE SICK PEOPLE WORK!'

'WHITE middle-class TEACHERS are a PROBLEM!'

(This is what far-right common sense looks like).
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Demonise & scapegoat asylum seekers

Cut taxes for very richest people

Allow raw sewage in our rivers

Criminalise protests & strikes

Reintroduce death penalty

Downplay climate change

Sell off #NHS

What right-wing extremists REALLY want: no welfare; no public sector; no taxes; no consumer, worker, or environmental protections; no food or other standards; no limits on Party funding; no lobbying restrictions; no unions; no protest; & no human rights.

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