Perhaps deliberately, perhaps she really is this ignorant:
Not, as a columnist, to be a turkey voting for Christmas, but this fetishisation of opinion writing is a bad sign. Points of view should sit in tandem with domestic and global news coverage. News coverage should not be used for partisan ends or cannibalised for commentary. But, more than anything else, the pivot is a symptom of a rightwing-owned media that no longer seeks to report on the world as it is, but creates the world as it wishes it to be.
She’s writing for a paper which has been, is, guilty of vilely slanting the world through “news” reports and which hasn’t had a dissenting voice since they last used my 15 years back*.
For example, anyone seen any even mention of how Scottish Water underperforms the English water companies? Even while there’s been plenty about how vile the English companies are?
But here’s the real thing. She’s British, in a British newspaper, where such things are normal. We know each paper is slanted. That’s how the system works. But then she’s pontificating using the American standards. Which were even possibly appropriate – despite being wildly biased, as it was – in an era of monopoly newspapers in their specific areas. Not it’s about national competition. Which is why that US system is moving to something like the UK.
But leave that aside. She’s complaining that the US newspapoers are becoming partisan and biased. From the lofty perch of the Guardian’s opinion pages. Hypocrisy, ignorance or stupidity, your call.
*This might be hyperbole
Maybe “British” at best. She might have a piece of paper, but that doesn’t mean anything.
It used to amuse me when the police were allowed to use the expression “a British national”.
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Looks like a fake quotation to me. I’ll bet Yanks didn’t use “liberal” in the modern US sense in his day, and perhaps not “conservative” either.
You’re right. But it’s still a sound statement.
Oh she gets it 100%, but like all lefties she believes she is a good person so whatever she does is for the greater good, even if she tells a few porkies.
a symptom of a rightwing-owned media that no longer seeks to report on the world as it is, but creates the world as it wishes it to be.
The Left, as ever, accusing others of what it does itself.
Yup. They even invented a word for it, didn’t they? Isn’t that what “the narrative” was all about, cherry-picking your facts to fit your opinion. Sometimes referred to as “policy-based evidence-making”.
The Guardian supports that narrative by by pointing out that they are independent and not controlled by billionaires hence are unbiassed. Incredibly I know otherwise intelligent people who fall for that line.
“Ideologies are fairy-stories for grown-ups.” – T. Sowell.
Same goes for “narratives”. The world does not proceed along a “narrative”. Stories are for children, and entertainment. They do not describe the world.
I’ve decided to regress 60 years and not worry about lofty decisions as to whether such people are hypocrits, ignoramuses or morons after seeing many of the Labour Party and its communications and PR divisions in action and now I just think “bad person” and try not to have anything to do with them. I’d just like to gently enquire of Malik what she thought of the BBC right wing coverage of Trump’s speech edited to try to get him arrested or impeached by completely falsifying what he said…
Any reason why we can’t post comments on the next article – dodgy dealings in healthcare (mis)using taxpayer funds?
Similar to the Minneapolis shenanigans although a different ethnicity.
Yes, Tim seems to be getting worried that we’ll say something libellous. It’s not something I follow, but is the ‘platform, not a publisher’ defence in danger? Some new Portuguese law?
Worried, no. Just careful.
Yes, it did occur to me to wonder whether that charity also ran early learning centres.
“Early Learing Centres”, surely?
I want a Learjet. With this money, I’ll get one early!
“Knowledge about and affinity with others are things to be excised under authoritarianism.”
Not so, Nesrine, the more we know about some cultures the less we support them. Government doesn’t have to have a hand in this at all.
“Hypocrisy, ignorance or stupidity, your call.”
Pecksniffian even.
I’d be keen to see some evidence of Scottish Water underperforming its English equivalents. I can well believe it, but would like it explained to me.
We had this discussion a few months ago. Scottish Water charges more for a Band D house than my local supplier has far more leaks and fails to monitor many of its sewage emissions (English Water companies would get fined if they did so). Nevertheless there have been thousands of complaints about illegal sewage discharges,
Correction *scores of thousands* of complaints.
She isn’t British – she works globally for ISIS or Al Qaeda. Being born in a stable does not make you a horse.
Hypocrisy, ignorance or stupidity, your call.
I don’t think she’s stupid. She knows full well the audience she is catering to. What Lenin called ‘useful idiots’. I know because I have quite a few in my own wider family. There’s thousands of them being generated by our ‘higher education’ system annually.
She is not complaining that US newspapers are becoming biased.
She is complaining that their bias is changing to one she does not like.
Dammit! She did it again! Where are the links ???
A creepy commie woman working for a commie rag, declaring there is rightwing-owned media, and provides no damn examples . . . so Gamecock can get links.
Oh, it’s not surprising. To a communist, everything else is “right-wing”.
She’s wrong of course.