Try sharing a cell with an anti-vaxxer. Libertarians opposed Covid-19 measures on ideological grounds, and those of us who instead adhered to the medical advice were not wrong to do so. That advice may turn out to have been wrong, although that was no part of the argument against it at the time, which I repeat was ideological. But we would still have been right to have followed it while it stood.
As lockdown opponents became anti-vaxxers, who seem to think that they have been conclusively proved right even though that has not happened and their arguments were political rather than medical, so anti-vaxxers are mutating into deniers of the existence of Covid-19. Yes, you read aright. They hold that there has never been any such virus as SARS-CoV-2. If you wanted to be taken seriously on other issues, then keep away from all of that. It helps never to been anywhere near it.
Yet the powers that be have always been determined to take down GB News, just as they had always been determined to take down RT. The argument advanced for every war from Kosovo onwards would have been a baseless and dangerous conspiracy theory if anyone making it had believed a word of it, but no media outlet has ever been punished for its failure to point out that blatantly obvious fact.
Recall the interviewees on Sputnik, Going Underground and The Alex Salmond Show. The ones from or about abroad were objectionable enough to our betters, but the ones from and about real life in the real Britain were intolerable to them. George Galloway, Afshin Rattansi and Alex Salmond should approach GB News. For an hour apiece, that would be three weekday evenings taken care of.
On a fourth, huge numbers of advertisers' potential consumers would watch The Jeremy Corbyn Show. And let there be a live and interactive question-and-answer panel programme, with Galloway, Corbyn, Nigel Farage, Peter Hitchens, Lisa McKenzie and Claire Fox. That would easily be the channel's biggest hit of every week. Does it want that sort of advertising revenue, or not? The business of business is business.
The campaign to bring down GB News is in full swing.
ReplyDeleteThey want it gone by the beginning of a General Election year, but I have no idea why. There is no electoral threat from the Right as conventionally defined.
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