LBC Chit Chat #14

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Redvers36 said:
Simply embarrassing from Jon Sopel.

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Sunak is God's gift to the 'politics of envy' lobby. Cue Starmer popping up to tell us about his 'deprived' childhood. I reckon their childhood backgrounds were fairly similar and neither of them went short of the things most kids took for granted. Let's hope it doesn't turn into a competition.

 
Ndrangheta said:
How can someone employing 260,000 be seen as a bad thing? How many people does Jon Sopel employ? ....I'm guessing one, but his ego probably counts for about 1000. Luckily no one gives a duck about what Sopel thinks, about ANYTHING. Sopel? Sopel Who? would be most people's response.
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I think that Sopel is being increasingly rattled by the progress being made by The Donald and the fear that he will humiliate him again.
 
Seventh heaven for Jobby this morning. Not only can he and his sycophantic callers slag off Sunak, but it enables reminiscencing about his own childhood and background. Click off.
 
Ndrangheta said:
Sounds dire. Did anyone call in from a gated community? Those are the people who are really suffering in this country.
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You'd best warn him that if Keir gets in his mansion may be taxed. Keir may also add a gated community tax for good measure whilst slapping 20% on school fees for the gated elite :p!
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I switched off Ferrari this morning because he was making a massive tabloid mountain out of the molehill of Sunak saying he didn't have Sky as a kid. I turned on Tom just now and it was the same subject so found myself reaching for the off button again.

I heard the clip in full on LBC earlier and Sunak was clearly struggling to think of an example to give. I'm sure he thought of a better one as soon as the mic was switched off.

I know Paul Brand who got the interview is one of theirs (LBC as well as ITN) and that Sunak is the hate figure of the moment, but some of this stuff is starting to sound like a media witch-hunt. Good journalists should be concentrating on the important elements of the manifestos rather than this fluff in my view.
 
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FunkyPhil said:
I turned on Tom just now and it was the same subject so found myself reaching for the off button again.
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I did the exact same thing! I just turned back on at 5pm and Tom was in full gas-lighting mode, talking about how polls show that people don't trust politicians and that politicians are only in it for themselves. I thought to myself, how about a poll on how many people don't trust for-profit, legacy media these days, or how the standard of journalism is at an all-time low (partly because most journalists are getting laid-off and replaced by gobshites). The link between politics and mass-media is hardly ever talked about on LBC, but it's rotten and divisive.

FunkyPhil said:
I know Paul Brand who got the interview is one of theirs (LBC as well as ITN) and that Sunak is the hate figure of the moment, but some of this stuff is starting to sound like a media witch-hunt.
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Paul Brand high-horsed that Rishi interview to such a degree it was frankly embarassing. It actually got picked-up on an American Media podcast I listen to (The Press Box) and they were laughing at it ..."A D-Day Veteran was almost in tears Prime Minister, etc. etc.". Honestly. :rolleyes:
 
Nigel Farridge will be taking calls on the Nick Ferris show tomorrow morning and one LBC obsessive is already getting some practice in.
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Bobby Chariot said:
Nigel Farridge will be taking calls on the Nick Ferris show tomorrow morning and one LBC obsessive is already getting some practice in.
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Nigel and Nick are quite similar in some way, men of a certain age and type who both love the sound of their own voice. As an aside, is anyone else utterly sick to the back teeth of men (mostly white) aged between 55 and 75 dominating politics and for-profit media? I state of the media couldn't be worse and the world doesn't exactly seem like a safer place (although I'm only getting a view of it through the lens of the news). I don't know what the solution is or who would be better ... but I just wanted to get it off my chest. 😬
 
Ndrangheta said:
Nigel and Nick are quite similar in some way, men of a certain age and type who both love the sound of their own voice. As an aside, is anyone else utterly sick to the back teeth of men (mostly white) aged between 55 and 75 dominating politics and for-profit media? I state of the media couldn't be worse and the world doesn't exactly seem like a safer place (although I'm only getting a view of it through the lens of the news). I don't know what the solution is or who would be better ... but I just wanted to get it off my chest. 😬
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I don't think broadcast media is as full of older white blokes as it previously was, just off the top of my head there's Kirsty Wark, Beth Rigby, Victoria Derbyshire, Martha Kearney, Mishal Hussein, Shelagh Foggy & more, all accomplished, very prominent broadcasters.
"Through the lens" - an O'brien-ism, shame on you 😬
 
Bobby Chariot said:
I don't think broadcast media is as full of older white blokes as it previously was, just off the top of my head there's Kirsty Wark, Beth Rigby, Victoria Derbyshire, Martha Kearney, Mishal Hussein, Shelagh Foggy & more, all accomplished, very prominent broadcasters.
"Through the lens" - an O'brien-ism, shame on you 😬
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Yeah, you're probably right. I think I was partly thinking about all the old men who run the Middle East and the rest of the World. You're right, the media landscape is much more feminine these days. The Marina Purkiss' and Emily Sheffield's of the worlds I could do without though.
 
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