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We’ll have to take your word for it @RachelLMillard because you banned press from the room while the “respectful” debate took place. It’s as though you didn’t want the world to know what was going on in there.
Benedict Cooper retweeted
Reform-run @Derbyshirecc have banned Local Democracy Reporter @EddieBisk.
Their central claim is that Eddie only gave them four hours to respond to his request for comment after a critical court judgement.
This is completely untrue, as the screenshot below shows.
@reformparty_uk at @Derbyshirecc has decided to ban one of the Local Democracy Reporters at @derbyshire_live, @EddieBisk.
Needless to say we stand utterly opposed to the false accusations made about our editorial standards and urge the council to reconsider immediately.
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"This week the White House unveiled Trump TV, a stream of pure unchecked, unquestioned propaganda without any interference or irritating questions from those lousy journalists. The ones he hasn’t banned."
New substack - link in comments
@pressfreedom @jodieginsberg @newsmediaorg
This is the First Amendment. The constitutional right that so many right-wing voices and MAGA influencers live by.
Will they now rally round their fellow free speech defenders at @CNN and @politico I wonder?
From my latest frombehindthewire.substack.c…
"The UK is already riddled with ‘news deserts’, where no local newspaper exists to hold local politicians to account. With more devolution this democratic deficit is only going to grow."
From my latest Substack:
#journalism #localjournalis #devolution
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Farage, Corbyn, Lowe, Polanski all claim that the media establishment is working against them. And it's a little like the religious: they all believe that only their claim to truth is correct, and all the others false. They can't all be right, but they can all be wrong.
While left activists love to create a narrative that the ‘legacy media’ and the Murdoch press are working for Reform, ‘echoing’ and ‘platforming’ Farage, among other facile sixth-form politics cliches, reality arrives to consistently disprove the nonsense.
“Why don’t you just get out of journalism?”
It’s a question I’m hearing these days, but not yet asking myself. Even in the darkest hours.
No l'm not ready to give up yet.
But it is getting harder and harder.
Some personal notes on my Substack. Link below.
#journalism
Josh Simons led a plot to investigate and then trash the reputations of @thetimes journalists including @Gabriel_Pogrund, for having the audacity to look into undeclared donations to Labour Together. Andy Burnham's going to reward Simons with a top job. frombehindthewire.substack.c…
NEW: Andy Burnham ‘to reward’ Josh Simons with No 10 job, Labour sources claim
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