The MSM: home of double standards
And so, just in time to provide work for the Westminster MSM ‘opinion makers for the weekend editions – the GBNews ‘scandal’. It’s not quite front-page-headlines material, as a look at the customary compilation shows (link), but there’s nothing else for our eminent MSM journalists to have an ‘opinion’ about, virtue-signalling to their hearts’ content.
Briefly, Laurence Fox ‘had a sexist rant’ against a female journalist on GBNews. The DM, in their report (link), provides the clip with the ‘outrageous’ remark. Sadly, Mr Fox subsequently apologised:
“Laurence Fox tonight apologised for his ‘demeaning’ sexist rant about political journalist Ava Evans in a Twitter video – before insisting that ‘any self-respecting man should run a mile from’ her. The actor-turned-activist sparked a backlash after making a series of remarks about political correspondent Ms Evans, which included asking ‘who would want to sh*g that?’ during a discussion on Dan Wootton Tonight on Tuesday. Fox said he was angry with Ms Evans over comments she made on a BBC debate around male suicide and alleged she had a ‘dislike of men in general’, but apologised for ‘demeaning her’. “ (link)
Note well: it is fine to demean men on the BBC when you’re a woman, but a man saying on GBNews that one wouldn’t shag her is misogynist and therefore, the whole of GB News must be shut down:
“GB News is being investigated by Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, after it received 7,300 complaints following comments made by Fox on Dan Wootton’s show on Tuesday regarding the political correspondent Ava Evans. There is no indication that Ofcom will order the channel to stop broadcasting.” (link, paywalled)
I’m amazed that the collective lefty-feminist congregation managed to produce only 7,300 complaints – but they created ‘news’ because others gleefully jumped on the bandwagon:
“The former Sky News presenter Adam Boulton said on Thursday night that the right-wing channel was not “fit to be treated as a broadcaster”. On Wednesday, the Conservative MP Caroline Nokes said on Newsnight that GB News “should be taken off air”.” (link, paywalled)
There are two articles in ‘spikedonline’ you might like to read. One is by Fraser Myers who writes about these astonishing demands made on the BBC’s Newsnight programme by certain panellists (link), i.e. a former SKY News presenter, a former editor of The SUN, and a female Tory MP: a truly balanced panel. The other, earlier article is by Brendan O’Neill who makes some excellent general points but who is sadly covering his own behind when he writes:
“This is not a defence of Fox. You’ll have to go somewhere else for that. It was nauseating to see him describe Ms Evans, a journalist at Politics Joe, as a ‘little woman’ and to ask, ‘Who’d want to shag that?’. ‘Show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman ever, ever’, he said. It’s the kind of thing you’d expect to hear from a table of pissed teens in a pub.” (link)
So? Why was this ‘nauseating’? Moreover, why should this be more nauseating than the decades of ‘polite’ discourse by top presenters in the BBC and ITV which have covered their sexual misdeeds for years? Forgive me if I find that more nauseating than one quip made by one man on one TV programme. Why did none of the ‘elite’ of the Westminster swamp dwellers demand those stations be taken off the air?
In passing, I’ll just mention the Brand scandal which allegedly everybody ’knew about’ but which clearly cannot have been misogynist because nobody demanded that Ofcom take those TV stations off the air, retrospectively. In contrast, showing the hypocrisy pervading the Westminster MSM, The Times has an article this morning with the headlines:
“Thighs, tries and my rugby lust list – She may be a bit hazy about the rules and the scoring, but that doesn’t stop Sophia Money-Coutts appreciating the Rugby World Cup and its global superstars” (link, paywalled)
Just a bit of gentle female banter – or a ‘nauseating, demeaning’ piece which could have come from a gaggle of drunk wimmin at a hen night? Imagine the outcry about an article of‘gentle banter’ by a male writer, about a ‘lust list’ of female rugby or football players!
That’s all I have for today. It’s not only the ’MSM sex standards’ which I find nauseating, it’s their blatant double standards which make me thoroughly sick. Have a good day.
Stopped watching GB news when they threw Mark Steyn under a bus. Much prefer watching and donating to UK Column. As a podcast they don’t have to rely on corporate advertising.
The GB News thing is going to put Farage in a tizzy? How can he continue to claim to be a free speech warrior and continue to work for a business that bows before the baying woke mob?
It’s make your mind up time Nigel – let’s see where you really stand.
Sharks detect blood in the water. With Mark Steyn already dumped it’s Dan Wootton’s turn. Calvin Robinson has tweeted in support of Wooton and remarks “Our bosses are scared. Afraid of Ofcom, afraid of the woke mob, and afraid they’re going to run out of money unless they manage to sort this advertising problem out.” Hope Not Hate’s campaign against advertisers and the fear of Ofcom is neutering GB News but the left are not content with that. They are fundamentalists crying death to apostates who will not bow down before state sanctioned orthodoxy.
In France, the channel the establishment is trying to close down is CNews, a platform for Zemmour for many years. It’s licence is coming up for renewal and the sharks are teaming up to try and stop that. CNews is longer established than GBNews and resentment at its success has had more time to build. Thus channels like TF1 are getting overtly involved in trying to close CNews. Here the BBC is still at the stage of sneering Newsnight progams.
GBNews is often vapid and struggles to fill time slots with anything meaningful (I rarely watch) but if it fails its like will not reappear.
Fraser Myers concludes his article with: “As the campaign to shut down GB News reveals, the liberal elites will do whatever it takes to maintain their grip on the broadcast media. They are a menace to democracy, pluralism and free speech. They cannot be allowed to get away with this.” That’s a sentiment we can all agree with, but how exactly do we stop them getting away with it?
Who will rid us of this baying lefty mob. Why can’t we go back to the time when women particularly didn’t take offence at every damn thing and could take a joke at the expense of their own sex. Rhetorical question.
I always followed UK Column rather than GB News and they seem to be surviving so far.
Sharks circling. After Steyn we can easily predict the GB management response. I think coast guy is next….Maybe..for once…They should fight back? with some proper journalists and go after their critics. If they are going down they may as well go down fighting. Time for some investigating journalists to start looking under rocks at various NGOs and fake charities etc ask some proper questions of MPs rather than cosy chats and chatshow jobs. As for larry the Fox he should be smart enough to know what to say…and smart enough to know you never apologise! (To the lefty mob)
The sad fact of the matter insofar as GB News is concerned, is that the majority of their so called presenters are political lightweights. Even Farage bows down to the lowest common denominator these days and interviews complete non entities, and takes a view on certain issues that at one time he would never have entertained, like week before last when he gave the likely winner of the forthcoming Polish general election a hard time over his stance on illegal migrants and EU migrant quotas. Insofar as advertisements are concerned, there are more commercials played now than there used to be be, but they still play their ludicrous self advertisements, which are mind numbingly boring and monotonous. Then they have a Met Office weather forecaster on and are often cut short mid sentence in favour of the self adverts where we have the presenters telling us how great they are. I want a right of centre broadcasting service, but this lot are amateurs…..
Colonel Aitch- whereyabin? Last we heard was near the summit of K2 looking for a worthy Prime Minister.
Lord Biscotte of Eaton Square and HoL……in a nutshell, doing The Dales way between Ilkley and Bowness-on-Windermere, that’s 82 miles between you and me. No access to a computer as I don’t have a Smartphone (thank goodness) but looked in at what passes for entertainment these days on the TV in the hotel bedroom, which was total and utter garbage. As for a worthy Prime Minister……is there one out there somewhere?
So, had Fox been on the red wine or was this an organised attempt to get GB news permanently off air by deliberate sabotage?
If so, did money change hands and who paid?
It’s hard to believe Fox would think he could get away with this sort of thing unscathed.
HA…..I think Fox is a better actor than a presenter. He bores me to tears when he stands in for Farage on GB News, and is prone to flying off the handle as in the case of this instance. Time to ditch him I think…They need to get someone of the calibre of Colin Brazier once again.
Given the choice of Evans or air head Derbyshire, well . . . I know which one ought to stop taking the ugly pills . . . cant say that, as its worse than Brand or Saville combined . . . shut down gbn AND bbc swamp or just . . . the soft-right wing competition?
And don’t forget that horrible Pres Trump at some sort of swamp tribunal, (one of 23 this month) when questioned under oath by the female inquisitor about women – what is your ‘type’, he replied – hard one, but I can say you are certainly not my type ([a real beauty] my ambiguous comment). . . as a heterosexual I dare not agree.