- Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:32 pm
#19133
satnav wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 4:51 pm
Currently #ScumMedia is trending on Twitter. It is being used by Johnson's deluded supporters to try and blame the mainstream media for Johnson's current problems. Imagine a former journalist relying on such a ridiculous attack on the media to try and save his bacon.
It's the second line defence of the bully. When "It's just a joke, you've got no sense of humour!" fails, then it's a defect on the person pointing out the misbehaviour, not said misbehaviour.
We regard capitalist journalism as an effective weapon in the hands of a well-informed, but utterly unscrupulous, enemy, rather than merely as an unbiased recorder of passing events.