The anti-media tit is incredibly frightening. (sorry about how uk centric this post is but I literally just the other day wrote to my MP about the anti-media rhetoric in government rn so I'm still v emotionally charged about it)
I know this is just left over agg from when traditional media made it clear they were not a fan of youtubers and youtubers hit back and said it was just because mainstream media "don't understand" them.
But tying the influencer anti-media debate to whats been going on with coronavirus and these BLM protests, she's associating herself with an incredibly fascist movement.
We NEED to have a free and independent press. A free and independent press SHOULD NOT work for the government and only post nice little fluff stories about how "ooh aren't we doing well" and "ooh isn't this nurse a hero lets all vote Tory and underfund them to duck". Their job is literally to ask the government difficult questions because politicians are famous for spinning stories however they want and not taking accountability.
Sure, watching the news right now might make you angry and upset. Good. I would be shocked if you watched it and weren't angry and upset at what is being allowed to continually happen.
But Melanie going off about the "negative press".. Jesus wept. Maybe the media doesn't want to be like "influencers" who take money hand over fist to parrot off a product description and ignore all the crap.
Instead of talking about how our press in the UK (and in sodding Republic of Ireland) is part of "project fear", be proud that you live in a country where the press is actually legally allowed to put an article up saying the PM is a bit of a tosser or where they're allowed to say "you know what compared to some other countries we've actually done a pretty bad job with this pandemic, why?"
Lots of countries can't say the same. Because they don't have an independent press. They have a government owned propaganda publisher.
This isn't to say each faction that makes up the press in the UK isn't without their own biases or foibles. And there is obviously a different between the tabloids and the broadsheets. But on the whole, I'm very impressed with a lot of the coverage and the questions they put forward to government.
And it boils my blood to see politicians that used to be journalists, sticking a blade into the backs of the press. And bloody Melanie, more than happy to claim her job as media when it means she's an Essential Worker. But when 'media' means informing your audience about history in the making suddenly that's a bit much. Journalists are brave, Melanie. Influencers on the whole are not.
