Election Year or Fear!

[Andy_Faber]

I don’t listen to music by bands I don’t enjoy. Is that so strange? Guilty as charged.

But that’s a false analogy, you’re analogising deciding you don’t like a band because you don’t like the look of them and then telling folk how bad they are without ever visiting their catalogue

[ramAnag]

But that’s a false analogy, you’re analogising deciding you don’t like a band because you don’t like the look of them and then telling folk how bad they are without ever visiting their catalogue

Sorry but that’s utter tripe, Andy. I haven’t mentioned not ‘liking the look of them’, ‘telling folk how bad they are’ or ‘never visiting their catalogue’. What I’ve said is that I choose not to access the two media agencies mentioned because I don’t trust them and similarly I don’t read books or listen to music performed by those who don’t appeal to me.

[Andy_Faber]

Sorry but that’s utter tripe, Andy. I haven’t mentioned not ‘liking the look of them’, ‘telling folk how bad they are’ or ‘never visiting their catalogue’. What I’ve said is that I choose not to access the two media agencies mentioned because I don’t trust them and similarly I don’t read books or listen to music performed by those who don’t appeal to me.

I stand by what I said and think your analogy was a poor one, even more surprised that you don’t at least listen to those who’s voice you don’t share, Ido mean genuinely, I thought your opinions were better informed than that

[ramAnag]

I stand by what I said and think your analogy was a poor one, even more surprised that you don’t at least listen to those who’s voice you don’t share, Ido mean genuinely, I thought your opinions were better informed than that

Sorry Andy…as regards the ‘analogy’, the job of the media should be to inform (preferably objectively). I don’t believe that either GB News or ‘The Sun’ (or the Daily Mail for that matter) set out to do that…I believe they regularly lie and have a political function rather than a journalistic one, so I choose not to add to their coffers.
Where music, literature (and film) are concerned…we all have different tastes. It may well be a flawed analogy, but my point, to GP, was that to avoid things we don’t like/approve of shouldn’t come as a surprise.
At no point did I suggest that because I don’t like something it should be dismissed and it was just wrong to suggest that I don’t consider things because I ‘don’t like the look of them’.

As regards being ‘better informed than that’. I honestly don’t have to subscribe to the aforementioned media outlets to be well informed about the intentions of the Right, anymore than I have to be black to have opinions on racism or attend a Trump rally to know that he’s bonkers.

[Trickytreesreds]

Sorry Andy…as regards the ‘analogy’, the job of the media should be to inform (preferably objectively). I don’t believe that either GB News or ‘The Sun’ (or the Daily Mail for that matter) set out to do that…I believe they regularly lie and have a political function rather than a journalistic one, so I choose not to add to their coffers.
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And that is where you fall down my friend.

As I told you, seeing as you have never watched it. When they have a debate, they have a representaive off both sides and often a middle neutral. Something the BBC definitely doesn't do.
Had you bothered to watch the link I gave you, You;d have seen the BBC fawn and play up to so called desperate asylum seekers, who came here looking for help. The BBC played the poor them card, gave them a programme of pity, and they turned out to be the biggest *** monsters going.

A news outlet is supposed to be objective. You should listen and compare. But your Guardian bias, prevents it. That is the point being made.

All I ask for is a fair representation AND report what has happened.

NOT WHAT ANYONE CHOOSES TO IGNORE AND REPORT