The fake left meltdown continues today. The fake left Guardian is busy defending fake left media coverage.
“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “What’s going on here is much more about macro politics.”
There are differing opinions about the severity of the BBC errors referred to in Prescott’s letter.
Many agree there were errors, not least with the editing of the Trump speech – a mistake that Trump has now responded to with the threat of a $1bn lawsuit.
But many say the events of the past week also have to be seen in the context of a wider political effort to shift the BBC’s reporting to the right on key issues.
Err, no. What is left-wing about genital mobility, Palestine and immigration?
None of these are partisan issues. All are culture war sacred cows and, in fact, globlaisation favourites, a focus on which re-enforces a right-wing agenda.
Once again, fake left-versus-right debates are utterly meaningless because they have no dimension of class. Without class politics, how can any of it be left versus right?
It is better presented as conservative versus progressive. Yet even that is overly reductive, given there is an economic dimension to the debate.
This is a fight for control of the media point of view because promulgation of the respective ideologies is all that matters in the absence of an underlying narrative that can define history.
There is no doubt that the ABC (and probably BBC) has been occupied by the fake left ideology. Its daily obsession with supporting immigration, genital mobility and Palestine is obvious.
If this happens to reflect certain political parties, then it becomes more destructive but not more true.
This is how we end with absurdities like this.
The International Olympic Committee will finally ban biological men from competing in women’s sport.
The landmark decision comes not after a shower of common sense befalling the Lausanne organisation under new president Kirsty Coventry, but a scientific review of the permanent physical advantages of being born male.
And this.
Expelled Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton will have his life membership reinstated under a deal proposed by the party’s Queensland division recognising that he was wrongly marched for questioning its pro-transgender platform.
In a humiliation for the Queensland Greens, their own lawyers found the 78-year-old had been denied natural justice on four occasions during the internal disciplinary proceedings that led to his expulsion – a process backed by federal leader Larissa Waters, Mr Hutton’s one-time friend and a Brisbane-based senator.
All news organisations have a viewpoint. But calling the ABC or BBC ‘left’ when they last mentioned ‘class’ as a factor in their coverage some time last century is ridiculous.
They are captured by a narrow ideology born of French post-structural theory and American evangelicalism that makes them the screaming cancel troopers of capital.
It can’t be thrown out soon enough.
