Why British Journalism is the WORST in the World

The BBC has enjoys a pretty good international reputation, with an international service with various offshoots in other countries in many different languages. However, the BBC represents some of the many problems with British journalism which are unique to this hell hole of an island - and has largely become a propaganda machine for the Tory party.
Tory donours (who are bankers) buying jobs at the BBC through dodgy loans, heads of political sections of newspapers getting jobs for the PM, the head of the Brexit and 2017 election coverage at the BBC leaving to work for Theresa May - and then coming back to work at the BBC, every single columnist at the big newspapers being from the aristocracy, and of course every single journalist going to Eton and Oxbridge - all of this and more you will find in the British press!
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[@TheKavernacle]

Roses are Red, Sugar is used to Sweeten, Gordon Ramsay's Dwarf prn star look a like found in a badger den half eaten

[@NHarts3]

How sweet. Can we get it on a valentine's card?

[@lillywho]

you wot?

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

Roses are red, we live under a boot, but at the very least, y'all really cute

[@Sol-0T-hn5ro]

What is this comrade????? I get all my socialist news from the Guardian!!! Take care brother, Solo-sweden

[@leazawacki4966]

@@CaptainBollocks.... I thought it was beautiful❤️🙏

[@alwest4472]

Don’t you love how the previous generations HATE any prospect of their children having better lives?

[@richardarriaga6271]

I heard that while the old guy ate a sandwich as I did actual work.

[@nat75kemp]

Generations don't rub shoulders enough

[@blindmown]

There should be a maximum voting age of ~60. At that point you don't have enough of a stake in the future for your opinion to matter. These people are so malicious. It's like they know they're going down and they're determined to take us with them.

[@richardarriaga6271]

@@blindmown 2nd class citizens are not a path to freedom. Sounds like Nuremberg laws.

[@PatrickF.Fitzsimmons]

Or the current generation could get off their ass and do something like every other generation did before them.

[@tommybruneel9573]

If journalism is dead, then the UK is the graveyard.

[@ThaTruFily]

In Latin America it's no better lemme assure you! At least you got James O' Brien haha We don't have one in 🇦🇷 :(

[@AL_Talks]

People like that are so insufferable. I want the minimum wage to be $25/hr and 4 day work weeks because I know how bad it sucked in my 20s working two jobs at $9/hr

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

Not to mention that fact that minimum wage still doesn't cover basic necessities, let alone rent. I remember a decade ago when rent in my city (rural area) was between $350-700 (CAD), which I was able to manage with with a $10 wage. I honestly don't understand how working class people are surviving today with how expensive rent has become, nowadays rent is between $1500 to $2500 on average. That's not even mentioning how much more expensive everything has become on top of that.

[@82Jaster]

@@SleepyMatt-zzz It's what's insufferable about people like this woman who're arguing for these excessive hours. She was born into immense wealth where every door was opened for her. It's far easier to work those hours when you don't have the stress of knowing about what happens if you don't. Not having to be concerned about missing a payment on your house, rent for your apartment, or simply having money to feed yourself or your family is a huge luxury. People that haven't been born into that scenario aren't particularly interested in grinding themselves to dust just to scrape by everyday.

[@PeachysMom]

Me too. The future is supposed to be better for everyone.

[@usernamelastname7741]

You gotta understand managers and CEOs are the hardest working people in the world that I KNOW OFF!!!!!!!!. Maybe you should work 3 jobs, 7 DATS A WEEK, work all shifts to gain the maximum amount of money, get married with giga-chad, sigma, alpha males or a trad-wife, and remember have 10 kids to continue your bloodline.

[@Mikewee777]

I would gladly work for $9 hourly if they also trained me to get credentials for a job that paid $27 hourly after completing the school work with a passing grade . (Free training implied ).

[@tofu_golem]

Brexit would never have happened without the British media.

[@lastrolo]

How did the press's arrogance make Brexit happen?

[@eyecontrol4900]

Dailymail had a hand in it as well

[@SunakStarmerisacunt]

@@lastrolo oh you're a Brexshitter too. You have selective memory.

[@mottom2657]

@@lastrolo British media always portrays Britain as some sort of God's Chosen Land, and the Brits as God's Chosen People who aren't supposed to be friends with the Continental (Mainland European) untouchables.

[@page8301]

@@lastrolo By spreading fear mongering lies about the EU.

[@redlightmax]

"Why British Journalism is the WORST in the World" [insert photo of Rupert Murdoch here]

[@lastrolo]

When did he take over The Guardian, The Independent or Channel 4?

[@0ptimuscrime]

Australia’s worst export. Sorry 😞

[@alice1374]

@@lastrolo Evgeny Lebedev has independent. Russian. What happened about that? Russian influence much? C4 is better than the BBC in most cases, even though they're both owned by govt it's slightly different for C4 as for the guardian, I mean, how do I say this.. The guardian really isn't your or our friends honestly. Sure, some things but for the majority of it the guardian is by far not your friend.

[@alice1374]

@@0ptimuscrime And now we have a trade deal with Australia! not like we didn't have something before since they're a British colony anyway, either way.

[@Gooner184]

It was bad even before he got involved tbf

[@delilas2398]

When we say "Eat the rich", we specifically mean people like Sophia MONEY-Couts.

[@nathangardner6423]

Her father is literally British aristocracy

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Fine by me, I got dibs on Donald Trump. He ought to be well marbled, and he looks to be high in beta carotene.

[@valivali8104]

​@@FrozEnbyWolf150 but all chemical from fake tan etc. and 🐂💩 will taste 🤢

[@Colddirector]

@@FrozEnbyWolf150 Personally I think that'd be a waste. Put Trump in a Truman Show-style fake White House and make a reality TV show out of what happens. It'd be funny and chances are he'd neither notice or care that it isn't real.

[@jimjiminy5836]

Never heard of her before, but I can quite comfortably say I detest her.

[@templofzoom9635]

As an older millennial I don't understand the resentment that younger workers know their rights. It feels like its another version of "I suffered so you should too".

[@birchplywood8464]

Its really sad to see milennials writing these kinds of articles too because they are carbon copies of the articles that were being written about us 10/15 years ago. "Milennials are crashing the economy because they dont want to work" was a regular theme in the press when i was in my twenties. Though, maybe i shouldnt be surprised; the vast majority of journos sell their souls and any principles they once had pretty early in their careers.

[@lanceash]

Here in America it's the same as "Well, I was circumcised, so I want my son to be also." Or, "My parents beat the hell out of me, so I'm going to beat the hell out of my kids too." Sickening.

[@strippinheat]

How DARE these kids expect anything more from life than making other people unnecessary wealth and the bare minimum of maintenance to keep them functioning so they can perform that duty!

[@WhataMensch]

Gordon Ramsay sex dwarf eaten by badger almost made me die laughing so we know British humor is still going strong.

[@callmecalicoo]

I had to read it twice, I totally forgot the UK had badgers lol

[@TheKavernacle]

Roses are Red, Sugar is used to Sweeten, Gordon Ramsay's Dwarf prn star look a like found in a badger den half eaten

[@WhataMensch]

@@TheKavernacle Top notch!

[@johnnytr0uble]

What I'm hearing is, I had a shit life, so now everyone has to suffer.

[@valivali8104]

She didn’t have, she was rich nepobaby. She lied.

[@PeachysMom]

It’s more like the oppressor complaining about being the victim of her own oppression.

[@bevo.g]

Except she didn't...

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

More like "I'm getting old and I don't like it". The generation who ponced about in kaftans and did sex, drugs and rocknroll then decreed that they were unique and that things should go back to how they were pre-WWII. Now the men can't get it up and the women have lost their looks so they're bitter and looking for someone to take it out on.

[@nathantheholt]

I haven’t checked into myself, but I remember hearing Sofia not only is from old money, her family wealth is so old that the family is referenced in Bram Stoker’s Dracula for being wealthy

[@ikhnatonosiris7166]

The article felt like a blog post. Writers these days are just cosplaying as journalists.

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

Sometimes journalists will do opinion pieces. I do agree though, a lot of opinion pieces have bad takes.

[@nathandrake5544]

As an American who was raised by liberal, educated parents, I grew up with the mystique of British journalism as top tier quality and objectivity. My dad still listens to the BBC world service podcast, which tbf is still pretty decent. After following British politics however, my opinion has totally reversed, and I actually think the British press is worse than ours. The main difference from the UK is that the US media environment is more strongly partisan and polarized. If you are watching MSNBC and then turn the channel to Fox News you will get a completely different perspective on the news. This is often bemoaned because it breeds mistrust in journalism and means that Americans can no longer agree on the same bssic facts. But the UK demonstrates how the opposite can be a problem. The incestuous nature of the British press and its cultural prestige means that the media can easily collude to push certain narratives and shut down dissenting voices. We saw this with the smear campaign against Corbyn, and right now particularly with trans people. In the UK the role of the media is to manage public opinion rarher than informing. That to me is more insidious than a polarized, partisan media landscape where you can at least get multiple perspectives. Also, another problem is that the UK media has a dearth of independent media. We have plenty to choose from here in the US, but in the UK the only ones you have are Novara Media, PoliticsJoe, and a couple of small blogs, which makes it even more difficult to challenge establishment narratives. As a funny sidenote: when you were talking about how old the UK is, it made me think of an experience my friend had in London. She was at a club in Westminster, and she ran into a guy who turned out to be a deacendant of Sir George Downing. Yes, the guy that Downing Street is named after. He also happens to be a fundraiser for Labour, and his rich dad according to press reports is apparently a slumlord. Party of the working class, everyone.

[@SunakStarmerisacunt]

that's mostly because the US right and their media allies are out and out christo fascist fruitcakes.

[@captainroberts6318]

US media is absolutely about managing the opinions of the population, just look at the 'culture war' I think part of the difference though is conflict is so engrained into American media that no one thinks twice about it, but in British media everyone is trying to be like everyone else so they don't stand out as the odd one. This ends up leading to homogenization, basically everyone saying and promoting the same stuff, advertising the same products, and every time they announce something new, you know it's something old repackaged with a shiny bow to make you forget all that.

[@lastrolo]

"We saw this with the smear campaign against Corbyn, and right now particularly with trans people" Are you claiming that The Guardian and The Independent do not exist? "Also, another problem is that the UK media has a dearth of independent media" I agree, the number of independent media out there that are crushed by the MSM and government and accused of things such as far-right etc "We have plenty to choose from here in the US, but in the UK the only ones you have are Novara Media, PoliticsJoe" They are so far left-wing and are everywhere, they are not independent and are financed heavily. Novara Media has its founder as the 50th most influential person in Britain, their voice clearly has not been stifled. PoliticsJoe influence is so stifled it only has 2 million visitors per month. You think the left is being held back when they are prevalent in the UK "He also happens to be a fundraiser for Labour, and his rich dad according to press reports is apparently a slumlord." The UK MUST end the stranglehold that Labour and Conservatives hold and there must be reform.

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

Our political system and its attendant media model themselves on yours in the U.S., so we are fast headed your way.

[@Barklord]

I worked for a manager who said she was looking to hire someone who *"has a sense of urgency"* ... It was a bakery.

[@lanceash]

Elon wants his people like that. Bezos wants his people like that. The Chinese Communist Party is worried about the current generation of young people because they actually want lives and don't want to work around the clock like social insects, which their country is increasingly resembling. If the GOP gets their way, the US will follow in its footprints.

[@SethHorn]

I’m about to turn 40, and I did so much unpaid labor at my first “real job” because I thought it was expected of me. I think it’s wonderful that younger generations aren’t putting up with that kind of nonsense anymore.

[@LilFeralGangrel]

Oh i could talk for hours about how the British press started and then spread transphobic propaganda. As a trans person i have a particular perspective on its awfulness.

[@amberlayton1328]

i see it everywhere and to someone whose informed it’s so so painfully obvious, it’s so incredibly frustrating. it doesn’t help that the average brit is transphobic, and so just fall for the propaganda over and over again. i have trans friends and the fact that the media so blatantly pedals falsehoods about people i love just wanting to exist makes me cry

[@Threxis]

I used to have the mindset that this lady described as herself in her 20s. I put up with staying until 6:30 pm or even 7:30 pm in the office because I believed it would help my career. It slowly dawned on me that there was no reason for me to stay past 6 (when my contract says I should stop). I could have stayed there until midnight, and I wouldn't have seen another penny. And promotions were out of the question, since all my supervisors had been hired externally. They were taking advantage of me. Now, my work life balance is everything. My time alive on this earth is the most precious thing I have, and I'll be damned if I'm going to spend more than I should making someone else more money. EDIT: Holy shit I just finished watching the part of your video where you go into the actual article, and it could easily pass for satire. Like, they are openly complaining about workers knowing their rights.

[@lanceash]

Hey, have you ever heard of Andrew Carnegie's "Golden Shovel" award? He didn't want to pay his workers any more money, so to motivate them, he created the "Golden Shovel" award. Whichever mill shoveled the most steel in a quarter got to have this golden shovel thing put on the roof of the mill. No more money in their pockets, no more benefits, no more time off, just the phony prestige of the thing on the roof. And it worked. The men were actually motivated. Where I work our operation is graded against similar operations across the country. And the idiots I work with actually CARE. They push and pull and strain and worry about maximizing every second of the day so we can be #1! Hooray! I don't give a damn. They're not going to give us one penny more or less, no matter what we do, so who cares?

[@Threxis]

@lanceash sounds an awful lot like pizzas and doughnuts that the bosses at my current job offer for exceeding our targets. Like i can put a deposit down for a place of my own with pizza 😐

[@mscookiemuncher]

i would rather a poor person who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps say some shit like "nobody wants to work anymore" than a nepo baby from a family who opened the world's 8th bank, imagine the audacity

[@richardarriaga6271]

Ladder-pulling sucks. I kind of expect aristocrats to be bad.

[@husshodi]

As an American who has spent time in the UK and watch the news I can say both American and UK news media is trash 😂

[@kiz5562]

Murdoch has ruined both countries media outlets, same here in Aus

[@thatguy1593]

@@kiz5562 Seeing my parents slowly watch more and more Sky News breaks my fucking heart, so I can absolutely vouch that Murdoch has ruined so much media discourse in this country.

[@Westlander857]

I’m American, but British tabloids are sold in some of our grocery stores in the checkout lanes. I remember being little and seeing them when my mom would take us shopping. They would say some crazy s**t “George BUSH having an AFFAIR with BRITTNEY SPEARS! Laura Bush is DEVASTATED!” Every time I would ask my mom if those stories were real, and every time, she told me no, those stories were bulls**t made up to make money, and to ignore them. Wish more people were taught that about tabloids from a young age.

[@FRD-HDD]

UK journalism makes you wish we were all illiterate.

[@leazawacki4966]

GET THE KAVERNACLE ON THE BBC

[@SuperNicktendo]

I worked super hard in my 20s and it got me nowhere except the motivation to leave for a higher paying job. It's all about who you know and raising your profile with people who can get you an interview. When you see your company just dissolve positions despite high performance then you start to realize you're just a number and you only do what you're paid to do. No more, maybe a little less.

[@justinkosuk3458]

I don't know, we got some pretty bad journalism here in the US!

[@youtubeuserremainsanonymou9022]

quite true, but it is marginally less intellectually incestuous-we have more schools

[@dag3014]

Difference is the most toxic UK media is the newspaper industry whereas the US has both toxic print and toxic broadcast media. (I'm not defending UK broadbast media either however)

[@michaelcoward1902]

Fun fact. Murdoch would publish lies in the British press first, so that he could quote the British press when he wanted to publish those same lies internationally.

[@allmodcons2274]

My desire for dissent has never been so great. As a 60yr old socialist, I have tried to avoid total revolt, but now....Bring it on.

[@mymiphone1841]

Not only in the UK. Over here in France, the propaganda is mind blowing

[@alexiscomix]

The one time I went to France was on a school trip to Geneva. In the hotel we were staying in on the French side of the border, they had TVs playing the news while we ate food and with my broken French I picked out news segments with such titles as: "Islamism is trying to tear us apart". Crazy stuff

[@TheMosayat]

​@@alexiscomix it really is on the frontlines of islamophobia today. In fact, it always has been

[@mottom2657]

@@TheMosayat France has problems with observant Christians too, but not at the same scale as with Muslims. However, Jews are totally exempt from France's state-sponsored anti-religion aggression.

[@Abrarhameed001]

​@@alexiscomix if you think these are worse You haven't seen indian journalist they are the worst among journalism.

[@sleepybey]

Same with Germany. Like the things he says about UK news don't even scratch the surface here 😭

[@chowbox87]

The millennial lady is so funny to complain about gen z while they also probably made fun of all the “millennials are killing chain restaurants” type articles that used to be so common. God I hate work culture and rich people

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

Awe yes, survivorship bias. Instead of reflecting on how they were treated and think, "hmm, maybe I should have been treated better at my job, and by extension everyone else", the assertion instead is, "everyone should suffer like I did, even when I know that what was done to me was wrong or inefficient use of my time".

[@munkyzzb7504]

I remember as a kid finding out about the tabloid that Piers Morgan work for were spying on private citizens even parents of a kidnap victim, then he came here to the U.S an got a big show here in the US and nobody ever mentioned it. Lol

[@qooqle]

Never ask the Daily Mail who they were supporting in the 1930s!

[@michaelcoward1902]

You don't have to ask...you can guess by the time you've gotten to page 5.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The older people in my office (who all lovely and nice to me) they tell me stories about back in there day. Where it was normal to have alcohol with lunch and how they just mess about for half the day and have a laugh. My dads workplace when he started there had tennis court, football pitch, bowling and a nightclub. My dad got a watch made by the queens jewellers for being their 25 years. They really tried to keep talent and look after employees. Changed in the 80s wonder what happened there... This stuff just doesn't happen anymore, that is why workers want to do their contracted hours are not spending all their time at work because there is no incentive and this hasn't even got onto pay that has dropped dramatically. If I did my job in the 70s my pay would be about 2/3rds higher, with that extra money I would be worrying less about bills and could get a cleaner and buy other things that would mean I could work more.

[@vsmith1688]

Fitting day for this to be released given it’s the anniversary of Hillsborough.

[@user-mt3hh9gw9m]

Don’t buy the Sun!

[@hansgruber3064]

I think we should all take Liverpools lead and stop buying that “news paper”

[@lastrolo]

Have those 'journalists' not all moved on now? Do you honestly think they are the only paper to lie and destroy people's lives?

[@alwest4472]

@@user-mt3hh9gw9mdon’t buy the sun doo doo doo doo, it’s all shite it’s all shite

[@breadpilled2587]

I live in the US and I remember my political science professor using the BBC as an example of an "apolitical news source" lmao

[@jurgnobs1308]

far too many people think protecting the status quo is apolitical

[@w0t_m818]

Australia is also really bad because of Murdoch, he owns 3/5 of all print media here.

[@Roxor128]

We should nationalise Murdoch's outlets. He's not a citizen any more, so why should he have any input into our media landscape?

[@maxtornogood]

The audacity of people to expect a reasonable work-life balance! We should all be burning ourselves out on hustle culture... 🙄

[@MinkStolle]

1) As soon as I read her double-barreled name and saw "Money" every cynical bone in my body said "here's where a nepo-baby lectures me with the line 'never had a hand-out'." 2) The first criticism about the BBC I heard was from the early 80's british sitcom "The Young Ones". Quote: "Good afternoon. This is the objective and strictly impartial BBC World Service, operating on behalf of the Conservative Party. And now a news flash..."

[@becca867]

I need one of those lazy girl jobs! My grandma hated working too, but she had my grandpa to look after her back when one income was more than enough (of course, she was a great homemaker which isn't considered work nowadays, but I still consider it work). My parents are both very hard working and worked standard middle-class jobs their entire lives, but they are struggling right now (in Canada where everything is super expensive), and it feels ... pointless. Retirement is going to be a struggle for them. Alas, I am doomed to a life indentured servitude.

[@Jtilden23]

An American football analogy works well here, "They came in on 1st and Goal and claimed they made a Hail Mary"

[@redlightmax]

Born on third base, and thinks they got a triple.

[@Dark_Jaguar]

Sorry, there's no way that the UK's news reporting is worse than the US's. I've seen our politicians stunned like a deer in headlights by a particularly BASIC question aimed their way by British journalism. I'll agree with what you said though, in that British reporting is unique in it's problems. I just... can't get over how awful our reporting is. We're like two elderly people competing who's body is decaying faster.

[@Dawumpni]

"You may come from money, but I AM Money." -Sophia Money-Coutts

[@cazrethomas]

You ever notice how, it's always. I had to go through hell so you should too! But they would think you lost your mind if some old person said, I had no access to indoor plumbing so outhouses forever. No one is clamoring for the pre labor strike days when you worked 6 days a week, all day for the equivalent of company gift cards and black lung. But somehow the moment in time that some people grew up in is where progress should halt. We've done all we can people; wrap it up

[@ahouyearno]

It’s their “end of history” mentality. Delusional

[@EidoEndy]

“I arrived at 7 and left at 10pm most days” And I bet she walked 15 miles barefoot in the snow to get there too…

[@Fury9er]

Uphill both ways, with nowt but a bowl of scalding gravel for breakfast.

[@ab8682]

They expected to have a workplace lackey when they gained seniority snd the are pissed that they arent getting one.

[@PaladinusSP]

She's a journalist only in the broadest sense. She writes clickbait op-eds for The Torygraph and that's all she does. The same goes for 'columnists' like Johnson or 'TV presenters' like Rheese-Mogg. While I understand the point being made, it's hardly an indictment on the entirety of British journalism or is it particularly unique. It hardly matters how many generations back the entitlement and arrogance go if it's completely indistinguishable from other similar op-eds and columns from similar 'old money' individuals.

[@AtomikNY]

"I remember thinking sick days were for wimps." It sounds very much like she still does. How have we learned nothing from a deadly global pandemic? Even if you're just worshiping at the altar of capital and don't give a crap about human well-being, infecting all your co-workers negatively impacts productivity, Karen.

[@curmudgeon1933]

Except that her family own the 8th oldest bank in the world. Coutts are the royal bankers, so I very much doubt if her well-being was ever in any danger. Being hired as a trainee journalist, because you are the grand-daughter of the journal's previous editor, is no indication of talent, but of blatant nepotism...which is obvious by the execrable article.

[@maxgrozema1093]

Make it a series!!

[@bruhb7611]

Wait her name is money-count and she’s a rich heiress? This is like mr moneybags from monopoly telling me that I don’t work enough

[@willdonaldson4634]

Reminds me of NPR in the United States, in that you shouldn't see it as objective.

[@unusedsub3003]

I’m 39 and if Gen Zed are like this, for the sake of my little girl, I’m relieved 😌

[@GarethWilliams-zz4ml]

They crave their “standing” within those social and elite circles. Very good post, very informative. Tidy, as they say in Cardiff. ✊

[@leighfoulkes7297]

We get the same articles, from the similar super wealthy elites but yes, they all go to same elite colleges like Harvard. The only real difference I see is your newspapers are far more sleazy and far more obsessed with your celebrities.

[@leighfoulkes7297]

The US media is also a lot dumber with a lot less info and details.

[@vylbird8014]

Britain loves celebrities. We've a whole genre of TV that is just 'celebrities doing stuff.' Celebrities singing, celebrities dancing, celebrities cooking, celebrities disguised in fursuits, celebrities in the jungle, celebrities doing random tasks, celebrities on game shows. The US has imported some of them, but they aren't as big a hit there.

[@alb91878]

I used to work for a company called Auto Plus and not long before I left the company there was this lady who ended up being the regional or general manager pretty much all but asked me or implied that I was too sensitive to what people were saying about a situation I came to her about. This she went on to detail to me about all her bosses and how they cussed at her and yelled at her and treated her like s*** and then try to make it seem like she was so amazing for taking that verbal and emotional abuse and going on with her day and just try to make me feel ashamed for not tolerating it. I just looked at your dad in her face and said I think that's a little ridiculous that you're going to try to make me feel bad about standing up for myself because you didn't stand up for yourself. If you think it's okay to be verbally and emotionally abused then that's on you maybe your kinky like that that I'm not. Also let's not forget that you get paid 52,000 or 60,000 a year more than I do she was not very happy that I said that to her and made it a point to be busy anytime I was around so she wouldn't have to look at me or talk to me. When I sent her my resignation I pointed out to her that I didn't appreciate her gaslighting attempts and then I hope that one day she grows up in the future.

[@richardcrooks6713]

The thing about inviting nobodies who have extreme opinions just to create debate is a long running problem. I remember when Nigel Lawson was invited to discuss climate change, Nigel Lawson, who has a PPE degree (which according to my economics student roommate at university was a pathetic degree for people who didn't have the intellect for either political science, philosophy or economics) discussion climate change when he's written a book where he clearly doesn't understand how plant biochemistry works... After that little debacle I emailed the editor of Gardener's Question Time to ask if I could be an expert panellist. After all, I struggle to grow basil in my kitchen, but clearly lack of knowledge about the subject one is talking about isn't an impediment to being an expert panelist. Sadly it's not just the BBC that do this. Presenting issues as "debates" is how we've ended up in the mess we have today. Media organizations don't say all of these organizations representing thousands of professionals, including the Society of Petroleum Geologists have agreed with the IPCC report. We instead have 1 expert for the position and 1 expert against (an expert who's likely doing it for their own grift, since contrarians are far more likely to get media appearances, name recognition and to sell books) and a confused public thinking there's a debate. We have this repeatedly with all sorts of social, scientific, political and medical issues.

[@mudi2000a]

Even without watching the window I can tell you that British journalism isn’t the worst in the world. That title goes to German journalism. With certain topics e.g. Palestine or Ukraine all they are doing is repeating government propaganda or even worse, right wing BS (Axel Springer group). It is very hard or impossible to find a diverse reporting which I CAN find in the British press.

[@simonm1233]

I remember when tom Nicholas called out the BBC as not actually being neutral

[@tylerbailey9329]

The David Beckham documentary made me resent the British press and frankly British culture in general

[@SamuIise]

Thank you Kavernacle, for showing me this article and reminding me how much I hate the UK 😂🙃

[@orinjayce]

All the newspapers are run by vault 31

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

can you pls make videos about Johnathan Pie. Hes usually Centrist, but he takes JkRowlings side regarding "Sex Realism", he defends Andrew Tate, hes spouted sexist and islamophobic bs.

[@MrSinclairn]

I suggest you look up,who 'Jonathan Pie' is,he is supposed to be a 'parody journalist' ! 🙄

[@bilbobaggins5752]

I'm a little older than you so I remember the BBC during the New Labour years and the tone was quite different. There was combative journalism claiming to be impartial but a lot of the arguments were coming from a place agreeing with the government. Then Cameron won a hung parliament and suddenly everyone tacitly endorsed his austerity agenda. British journalism doesn't have just a Tory bias, but a deference to power. When there's a change in tone with the government's stances on things, you'll see a lot of recuperation happen to match them.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

6:48 I notice a lot of these people who claim to work 7am to 10pm or whatever, seem to include very odd things in that list they'll consider posting stuff on twitter working. Not to mention yeah when you have no friends or life outside of work I'm sure you can work all these hours but for people with a life it's harder.

[@schm00b0]

Her fucking surname is Money? LOL

[@sayachan6069]

I will make a point that will get me some flak but I do want the BBC to not die, on the grounds it a public service and I would rather it not get wiped out and replaced with another right wing corpo talk radio type thing which is where we've been heading with GB news, talk TV etc. Not going to defend the news arm, you are right about where its been heading for a long time but the BBC is more than the news, theres publically funded drama, science fiction, films, art projects and more its backed over the years that would never have had a chance under corprate IP gobbling companies that exist today, we also get language services too which has been hugely useful for the gaelic speaking community and thats on top of countless radio channels that are funded too. A major problem with why the tories have a chokehold on public broadcasting is due to partisan appointments to the chair position and other key areas since Cameron came into power. Granted it also bent the knee to Blair and new labour but if anything I believe it needs reform and not abolishment. One thing to remember is, why is the far right so keen on demolishing the BBC? Like outright tory party operators, lobby groups and more which pour money into factions like "Defund the bbc" which had James Yucal and Calvin Robinson heading it up and the anti licence fee groups that have been astroturfed into existence over the years not to mention the Murdoch press have wanted the BBC killed for decades. These are the not the kind of groups the left should be breaking bread with or agreeing with and the fact they want to abolish public broadcasting in the UK is cause for some self reflection. To make a point too I have leftist friends I talked too in the netherlands who regret seeing their public funded TV networks gutted completely with no way to turn back now once its gone and replaced 100% with the private sector. Again its not perfect, its a system highly worth criticism and its news has always been pro establishment but people ignore the good things that have always come out of it to go scorched Earth and the death of the BBC would not be the leftist victory you might think it will be.

[@lastrolo]

See, it is the left that wants the BBC to remain and the right wants it gone. Why would the right want something gone if it is so heavily in its favor? Why should the British public be forced to fund it? The BBC cannot be reformed, it is too big a company and is far too bloated. There are too many interested parties that want it to remain. Who are the far-right? The right wants it ended as it is not fit for purpose. For those other obscure services that you claim people use, let them pay a subscription to have them.

[@dalekrenegade2596]

​@@lastrolo Yes yes more blaming the left and give no specifics why.

[@lastrolo]

@@dalekrenegade2596 The left blames everything on the right, as per this video yet does not take responsibility for what they do. For example, this left-wing KZbinr lies about people who are on the right to fit the agenda and his narrative. The left made everything so polarizing, don't complain when the tables are turned. Can you explain why the left wants the far-right BBC to remain yet it is the right that wants the far-right BBC to be defunded? Why would the far-right want the BBC to remain if it is in their favor?

[@itchimo82]

Reminds me of Tucker Carlson. Deceptive word choice is one thing. But writers like this also misdirect the source of the problem; pitting citizens against themselves.

[@PossumMedic]

Sophia: "😡I was a bootlicker so you should be too!" 🙄 Your name LITERALLY has "Money" in it! 🤪😂

[@superroller]

I’m damn near 40, jobs in America like to fire people because they don’t know their rights, it happened to me and plenty of others my age and I’m happy younger people are standing up

[@valiumhime]

Chile is the exact same way.. press works as a spokeperson of the rich who own them.. there are are like 2 indepent press teams that uncover all the "dirty" but ofc they struggle to survive economically.

[@sgt.doughnut5918]

Nepo baby upset people aren't willing to pull her weight.

[@vercoda9997]

As an (Irish) editor working in British media, I'll just point out that the *vast majority of the British media* comprises *local* media - local newspapers, radio stations, etc - and is *NOT* synonymous with the very few Red Tops and Nationals. It's both intellectually lazy, and dishonest, to lump all media in together and make sweeping generalisations about The Media/The Press, as though it's all an interchangeable monolithic entity. It isn't.

[@birchplywood8464]

Im in my 30s and have never done unpaid overtime. Thankfully i had older colleagues in my first jobs who drilled into me that i should never work when im not getting paid.

[@user-wo6qn3vf9n]

Every night on the TV at 22:00 we have to suffer 30 minutes of no news.

[@sonicalex2536]

Was not expecting that first headline

[@ChristopheMassey]

It's shocking how close this is to the US. What do they say? Different names...same old sh*t!

[@bob23301]

Last time i bought a daily newspaper was way back in the 90s, and the press was bad back then, but today they are a danger to the whole country.

[@stephengreen-dowden9068]

Hi Kav, greetings. Great video. I have not watched a traditional news cast here in Canada since the mid 90's, I'm 54 now. I do not blame younger workers for pissing off at quiting time. I leave at the end of day, if the work is not done, it can wait until the next day. I know of British KZbinr, won't name names who complains the BBC is wokey cokey...it is like conservatives in the US who bitch about CNN being lefty....how far right do you have to be to consider the BBC and CNN lefty? There is nothing I can say to that...keep up the good work...

[@NHarts3]

Now I want to see you do a deep dive on Monsanto. I think you'll do a good job

[@krulidn]

The only thing I agree with from the article is that it would be annoying being 20+ years older than someone with all of the experience, yet encountering someone in the workplace expecting to "get ahead" of you into senior management. So they're buying into corporate hierarchy structures and all that comes with that, but only for the perks, and to hell with the fact someone else may deserve it more? But to be fair, I've yet to see this in my own experience/career as an elder millennial. Everyone puts their hand up for jobs. I don't notice anyone younger being any more entitled necessarily. If anything, there tends to be mediocre old people who hang around and expect promotion for just existing.

[@ScandalUK]

I watch a lot of international news - by comparison it seems like "climate change" is censored in UK media.

[@vylbird8014]

The BBC covers it a lot... but only the BBC does. The rest of the media tends to just ignore it, unless they are trying to make people angry that environmentalists are taking away their burgers. Because it's just not the type of material that gets lots of readers and ad-revenue.

[@nodrogwarob]

That she could afford to provide her unpaid labour renders her article moot as thousands of working class people finishing their 12 hour night shift on poverty wages gather for a record breaking collective eye roll.

[@lanceash]

Wow, that comment about "career vs. job" really hit home. I work for the United States Postal Service and can't tell you the number of times co-workers have referred to my "career." I don't have a "career;" I have a _job_ . I'm not interested in "getting ahead" or "moving up the ladder." I just want a paycheck so I can support myself and my family. My career, for what it's worth, is my art, what I do at home. And even that I don't make any money at. That's not what it's about. You wouldn't believe the number of times the post office puts up posters for upcoming "career advancement seminars." "Get YOUR career on the fast track by attending 2024's weekend of seminars!!!" Pee-Yew. Who cares? But this is nothing new. People who DO give a damn about getting into management and gaining more and more authority and power simply cannot fathom those who don't have the same motivations as them.

[@GarethWilliams-zz4ml]

The word “connections” springs to mind.

[@Dark_Jaguar]

In the early 1900's, people thought their descendants WOULD be working fewer and fewer hours as a result of new technology and labor rights. It was such a presumed truth that shows like The Jetsons (a show made decades later but inheriting this idea of what the future would bring) had George Jetson working three hours a day, three days a week.

[@Gordon.Pinkerton]

I hope people ignore those who say you have to put in unpaid overtime to advance in your career. Cos the thing is, if we all refuse to do unpaid overtime they'll have to eventually promote one of us, cos someone needs to do those senior roles when the older generation leave the workforce!

[@walexander8378]

When production is at the highest and wages are stagnant, yes people will start asking why they're producing anything at all. The 4 day work week with same pay idea makes perfect sense when you realize what people are experiencing these days. That would help equalize production to wages.

[@maxharbig1167]

Anyone would be hard put to find an equivalent to the gutter press UK tabloids anywhere else in Europe.

[@lanagibson4334]

I started work 78 I never done unpaid I did overtime but made sure I got paid right we had strong unions as well

[@Canoby]

I'm still trying to figure out how a minor photoshop of a family photo is somehow a national scandal, granted hardly the biggest indictment of British journalism (though may be an indictment on the Royal Family worship Kav's already called out on this channel).

[@FluxChanneler]

I used to work at a company that paid time and a half for overtime, and I'd frequently stay 30+ minutes late to finish whatever I was doing when the workday ended. I was asked to stop because I was fucking up the payroll, lol. I don't work with that company anymore, and the company I do work for doesn't pay overtime. You better believe they expect me to work longer than my scheduled hours, for some fucking reason.

[@annikagarratt4208]

How dare young people want things to improve

[@kanojo1969]

America definitely has the same pipeline, it's just not about aristocrats, instead being about money. You only have to look at how many people high up in American society went to Harvard, particularly Harvard Law, to find the same familial influences and pipeline to influential jobs. America doesn't have the crusty ornate names that the British peers have inherited, but they duplicated absolutely everything else about the system when they set up America's education system centuries ago. The end result is exactly the same. Also, that woman probably did spend all her waking hours 'working' back in the day, it was part of the ritual of being in that pipeline. But it was the mood of the time, everyone was doing it. What she doesn't really think about is the thousands of non-connected people who worked just as hard but didn't get the promotions or cushy jobs later on. Because they weren't in on the grift. Those are the people who are now saying 'fuck that' and walking out at 5pm.

[@curmudgeon1933]

The rise of unpaid internships for many positions in media, politics, finance and the corporate world, ensures that only those fortunate enough to have family wealth to support them, can even think of applying for those jobs. Try working for 6 months or a year, unpaid, while finding money for rent, transport, bills and living expenses. Anyone doing the hours Sophia claims to have worked, would have no time to take another side-hustle. I imagine her family has property in London so she was definitely not sleeping in her car. lol This scam effectively screens the more elite jobs, and prevents the hoi-polloi from exercising any social mobility.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

Canadian journalism is worse--absolutely shameless.

[@blairbrown4812]

Rupert Murdoch: "Hold my fucking Foster's, mate!"

[@arda..]

Honestly would watch a 20 hour video from you, because your Videos are always top notch commentary. The UK Press feels like peak capitalist brainrot, its like TikTok Meme videos put pen to paper

[@leazawacki4966]

KAVERNACLE….give me the 20 hour video

[@erikdaniels0n]

0:00 the WHAT Champ????

[@DG_musician]

People need to remember that the BBC news and current affairs is very different from the creative side. BBC news and current affairs is a cesspit that causes harm to the political discourse. The creative output (radio and TV) is, imo, an essential part of the creative ecosystem of the UK. The loss of something like the BBC radio introducing network (32 regional shows) would have a catastrophic impact on grassroots music in the UK.

[@lastrolo]

Why should the vast majority of people be forced to pay for that music? Make it a subscription service, if it is that great it will thrive.

[@DG_musician]

@@lastrolo you seemed to have missed my point - without things like the introducing network, you won't have any music to listen to, because it helps to foster grassroots music. I know this because I've been in many bands it has helped raise the profile of. It's an integral part of the musical ecosystem

[@lastrolo]

@@DG_musician I don't know what introducing network is, why should people be forced to pay for that to watch ITV? Music will still exist, whatever that is will not be the be all and end all for music4 Which bands? It is not effective if you have been in many bands, is it? How much money is pumped into that and how many other artists don't make it? It's a blackhole that people should not be forced to pay for.

[@ShroudedWolf51]

Honestly, you said "The Telegraph" and I already knew it'd be one of four articles. Since they are so transparently propaganda for the tories that a little while ago, they changed their logo to be aggressively similar to a certain genocidal group in Germany during WWII.

[@notubercharged]

thank you! i'm not mad for abosultely depsising the bbc, i try my best not to give them any money or watch time, even if it means not watching the shows i grew up on again

[@katashworth41]

7-10 in an office, without wanting to be gatekeepy, I think she should have tried doing 11 hour shifts in a supermarket, on her feet all day and being asked to cover someone ringing in sick. I only did it cos I didn’t have plans and got paid overtime.