The deliberately
misnamed television channel, GB ‘News’, has found itself in some difficulties
recently. It was forced to sack
or suspend presenters over misogyny, and has been criticised
for a lack of the balance expected of any proper news outlet, although the
latter seems a tad unfair given that, despite its name, it makes no pretence of broadcasting
news, merely opinion. With those difficulties as background, I struggle to imagine the
internal discussions which led to some bright spark suggesting that the way
forward was to hire
the worst misogynist and most compulsive liar that they could find, let
alone that such suggestion was then acted upon. Announcing the decision the day
after it was revealed
that the Covid inquiry will this week be presented with a veritable feast of misogyny
and foul language in messages exchanged between Johnson and Cummings is surely just having a laugh.
Johnson has
regularly managed to display his misogyny, racism and disregard for the truth
in columns written for various newspapers over the years, but everything we’ve
seen there has been through various stages of editing and proof-reading before
it appeared. Now they’re going to give him a live television show,
circumventing all that checking and editing. What could possibly go wrong? As
far as I’m aware, no bookmakers are currently offering odds on how long it will
be before he gets sacked from this job, but it surely can’t be long. Will it
all be over by Christmas? Or will he manage to drag it out until he has laid
waste to GB News in the way he managed to do for the Conservative Party?
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I'm going to the local bookies tomorrow to see if I can get odds on this. Seriously.
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