Thursday 21 January 2021

New Media, Indeed

As a supporter of the Project for Peace and Justice, I am sorry that it is campaigning against News UK TV and against GB News.

What is so wonderful about the existing media? Do Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters get on Sky, or ITN, or the BBC? Do those outlets give them a fair hearing?

Instead, the Project ought to have approached the new networks with a proposal for a weekly programme to which Corbyn would be a contributor, most obviously as a panellist.

People would have watched that. It would have been a commercially viable proposition. Plenty of the rest of us on the Left would take any gig that was going. But no one else has Corbyn's box office appeal. This is an abrogation of responsibility.

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