Media bias against Jeremy Corbyn

On day one of the new Labour leader's tenure, the media have been in a frenzy on how to present his moves.........

I feel that we perhaps need to have a thread to highlight the cover he is getting from all media, papers, TV both from the right and left or 'unbiased'......

To kick off:-

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Headline on Huffington Post site


Dennis Skinner Launches Incredible Rant Against BBC Journalist Emily Maitlis......watch video...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/14/dennis-skinne-bbc-rant-jeremy-corbyn-_n_8133390.html

Daily Mail Headline 14/09/15

Corbyn chairs first meeting of his shadow cabinet hours after coming under fire for 's*** jobs' for women... and don't they look delighted to be there!

Will reporters be asking Michael Fallon, Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid how they feel about their 'S*** Jobs'........

The BBC was making a meal this morning out of the fact that Jeremy Corbyn has asked his friend John McDonnell to be shadow chancellor. I can't remember our state broadcaster creating much fuss when Cameron made his Bullingdon Club drinking chum chancellor in 2010. I refer of course to Osborne, who failed his A Level Maths and whose only experience of work outside of Tory HQ was folding towels in a London store for one week.

Education is very important, it's our nation's future. It's stating the obvious to say that cradle to the grave healthcare is important for all of us, and it's also vital if you want a fit and productive workforce. Corbyn has given both of those portfolios to women.

An entire page of it here:

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/corbyns-cabinet-chaos-the-inside-story/ar-AAehsEd?li=AA59G2&ocid=U219DHP

Another day, another smear.....


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I confidently predict that there will be considerable media interest in what Mr Corbyn chooses to wear at the Cenotaph in November.

Corbyn fails to sing the National Anthem.......Shock..Horror.....Here is the damning, front page media, proof.......



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This shows other also failing to sing......

Perhaps not a totally convincing argument without hymn-sheets visible in both of the pictures, but I only know the first three lines of our National Anthem and may not be unique in that respect.

In less formal settings, the majority of loyal subjects head for the exits at the first notes.

The lady in the left of the picture is clearly not holding a hymn sheet. The one on the right looks about as convincing as John Redwood singing the Welsh national anthem.

People don’t sing the national anthem for a variety of reasons:-
- They don't believe in God, or the monarchy.
- They don't like the song.
- They don't like singing.
- They are Scottish.
- They are the Queen.
- They don't know the words.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34268442


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Why is ‘The Sun’ so determined to destroy Jeremy Corbyn? Because he could be PM

From an article by Liam Young:-

"The latest front page splash from 'The Sun' has been rubbished as a lie by camera recordings and eyewitness accounts from both members of the media – some previously hostile to the Labour leader – and veterans themselves. The image it attempts to portray is then also rubbished by two facts. First, Jeremy did not attend the VIP state dinner with Cameron; instead he stayed to welcome veterans from the parade and to personally thank them. Second, he later took part in his local constituency service, as he has done every year, and honoured the fallen gracefully with a poem written by a soldier explaining the futility of war. While ‘The Sun’ wishes you to believe that Jeremy is a Britain-hating, soldier-hating leader, the facts above explain otherwise.

‘The Sun’ used valuable space that could instead have been given to properly honouring the war fallen, or editorials supporting homeless veterans or those servicemen and women who are set to lose thousands of pounds under the Tory work penalty. But of course it didn’t, because that is not what the paper wants to achieve. It wishes to cement Tory rule as long as it serves the interest of its owner, Rupert Murdoch.

Corbyn remembered the war fallen, and any sensible adult would report so. ‘The Sun’ didn’t, because to do so would have legitimised his position as a principled, decent human being with radical ideas that would make Britain a whole lot more equal. If Jeremy was ever given the opportunity to do so, ask yourself whom it would hurt most and then realise why they are so determined to destroy him."

For the whole article:-
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2015/11/why-sun-so-determined-destroy-jeremy-corbyn-because-he-could-be-prime

The Murdoch Press shows little confidence that the current administration can prevail a full five year term.

Mark McGowan  "THE ARTIST TAXI DRIVER"
( @ chunkymark on Twitter for more like this)

Corbyn in the media

An extract from an article by Paul Myerscough:-

"The 49.6% of Labour Party members (and 83.8% of registered supporters) who voted for Corbyn didn’t believe that Burnham, Cooper or Kendall offered a better chance of electoral success in 2020 than Brown managed in 2010 or Ed Miliband did earlier this year. Indeed they didn’t believe that, in a changing political landscape, their man necessarily stood a worse chance in 2020 than Burnham, Cooper or Kendall would have. They were not, as Jonathan Freedland suggested in 'The Guardian', along with Helen Lewis in 'The New Statesman' and Janan Ganesh in 'The Financial Times', merely indulging a fit of narcissism or nostalgia.

The party members who voted for Corbyn hadn’t suddenly thrown their toys out of the pram just because Miliband lost. This is not a story of the last five years, but the last twenty, and their disillusionment with New Labour is about a great deal more than the Iraq War. For them, Miliband was not ‘too left-wing’; on the contrary, he was a final attempt at compromise. And when it failed, they realised they had had enough. It was too difficult to go on knocking on doors, summoning the necessary conviction, working towards the slim possibility of victory in the hope of implementing a platform of ever-weakening amelioration of the worst effects of neoliberalism. They looked at the candidates on offer and saw that they had nothing left to lose."

For the whole article:-
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n20/paul-myerscough/corbyn-in-the-media

Murdoch Empire continues its onslaught..........

Sky News 'Jihadi Jez' Article Removed From Website After Corbyn Supporters' Petition

Sky News has removed an article from its website which referred to Jeremy Corbyn as "Jihadi Jez", as a petition lobbying for an apology reaches 50,000 signatures.

The petition argues that the article "frivolously" used the term jihadi in an effort to "equate the Labour leader with a terrorist who zealously murdered innocent people".

In what appears to be unfortunate timing, the article was published just as the terror attacks upon Paris unfolded on Friday evening. As a result, the article and its headline took on greater significance over the weekend.

A Sky News source said that the article was removed as soon as the significance of the events in Paris became clear, though it could not confirm when this was. They claimed the channel was happy with its fairness and balance.

The channel told a Morning Star journalist that it had no plans to apologise for the headline.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/16/sky-news-jihadi-jez-article-removed_n_8576714.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Not just bias against Jeremy Corbyn......  


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Yet when Tory MP Richard Graham quoted Josef Goebbels in the House of Commons, there wasn't any of this faux outrage at all.

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/tory-mp-richard-graham-accused-of-quoting-joseph-goebbels-in-defence-of-new-surveillance-bill--bklSCE9nOg

All of this double standards and hypocrisy is just staggering.

How quickly some of the media forget the salacious actions and forked tongues from anyone connected with the Tory party yet they gather en masse to attack a man who won convincingly but who won't sink to their level.

It really is quite breath taking.

The Conservative government, the worst in living memory, has got a free pass in power

Matthew Norman, writing in The Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-conservative-government-the-worst-in-living-memory-has-got-a-free-pass-in-power-a6756351.html

The Tories refuse to accept legislation to require privately rented accommodation to be fit for human habitation, Tata Steel is cutting another 1,050 jobs in the UK, and Jeremy Hunt is destroying the NHS. So what story does 'The Daily Telegraph' use to try to distract its readers?

Jeremy Corbyn won't name his cat and instead simply calls it 'the cat'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12104166/Jeremy-Corbyn-wont-name-his-cat-and-instead-simply-calls-it-the-cat.html

Jeremy Corbyn appeared on ‘Marr’ on 17 January. Compare what ‘The Sun’ claims that he said to what he actually said:-

Sun Corbyn Marr Show Smears Busted

http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/sun-corbyn-marr-show-smears-busted.html

The Jeremy Corbyn story that nobody wanted to publish

From an article by Crispin Flintoff:-

"I wrote a blog about the Jeremy Corbyn tour – known as #JC4PM – which the media had failed to cover. Journalist after journalist told me that the story was ‘not newsworthy’.

The #JC4PM tour was drawn up in the same spirit as the rallies that were organised by local activists during Corbyn's leadership campaign. It was spontaneous. There is a fantastic range of talented people who will perform or speak for Jeremy, including Charlotte Church, Michael Rosen, Brian Eno, Ken Loach, Billy Bragg, Mark Steel, Jeremy Hardy, Francesca Martinez, Mark Serwotka, Shappi Khorsandi, Arthur Smith, Patrick Monahan, Janey Godley and many more. Some big names have said they are happy to perform but they are booked up for the dates we have already planned.

As someone who has put on comedy night fundraisers for the Labour Party for over three years, I know that many of these names would do nothing for Labour before Corbyn was leader. Labour developed a bad name - associated with the illegal Iraq invasion, with supporting benefit sanctions and staying too quiet on Tory austerity. However, now more celebrities are backing Corbyn because he represents hope and a move away from top-down politics.

So why aren't the media reporting on the #JC4PM tour? The answer seems to be that it wouldn't go along with their narrative and would undermine their own credibility with their readers. They want Corbyn to look like a loner who has little support, or only the support of people that the media have already demonised – those mysterious ‘loony lefties’ who aren’t talented and successful celebrities."

For the whole of the article:-
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-jeremy-corbyn-story-that-nobody-wanted-to-publish-a6848651.html

But for whatever reason, Mr Corbyn is never out of the news. His name gets mentioned more often than the Kardashians'.

Very rarely in any really positive connection, however - still, I suppose there's no such thing as bad publicity

Lost elections, the Queen's gaffe and the Iraq war – it's all the fault of one man: Jeremy Corbyn

From an article by Mark Steel:-

As the election results came through, the panel on the BBC consisted of a Tory MP who hated Corbyn and, for balance, a Labour MP who hated Corbyn. The Labour figure was Chris Leslie. He appeared all afternoon, and probably all evening and all week. He's probably now presenting 'Cash in the Attic', saying: “This table leg was made in 1896, which proves Jeremy Corbyn has ruined the Labour Party because by now we should be finding Georgian sideboards".

These Labour MPs analyse every election result and make conclusions such as, “If you look at the votes for president of FIFA, Corbyn got none whatsoever. At this stage if we’re not winning the support of Central African dictatorships it shows we’re heading for catastrophe”. It may be they’re right, and Labour isn’t likely to win a general election – partly because this is so difficult since losing Scotland. And Corbyn is clearly to blame for that. If only Labour was led by someone who invaded Iraq more often, supported Trident and was more abusive towards the SNP, then the SNP voters of Glasgow would come back to Labour and apologise for being so silly.

Another way of looking at the current situation is that Labour is winning already. Every time the Tories announce a new policy as being vital, a few days later they have to cancel it. The cuts in tax credits and disability benefits, and the attempt to force all schools to become academies, have all faced such opposition they’ve been withdrawn. But all sensible people agree the most effective way to support Labour is to be like one of these angry football supporters who scream their manager should be sacked if they lose one game.

For the whole article:-
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-local-elections-sadiq-khan-queen-gaffe-iraq-war-chilcot-inquiry-a7026756.html

As I am sure everyone else has also noticed, Boris clearly intended Mayor of London to be his springboard to the job of Prime Minister.

From the reported comments of Sadiq Khan since his election, that seems to be his intention too.

"Labour has failed to score enough goals against a deeply divided Conservative Party.
".... I've achieved more in these seven days than in the last six years on opposition."

Anushka Asthana and Heather Stewart reporting in today's Guardian.
http://guardian.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

BBC may be biased against Jeremy Corbyn, says former BBC Trust chairman

From an article by Charlie Cooper:-

The former chair of the BBC Trust has accused the broadcaster’s journalists of “quite extraordinary attacks” on Jeremy Corbyn, and questioned whether BBC bosses had abandoned impartiality in their coverage of the Labour leader. In comments that appear to reinforce recent criticisms of the BBC from supporters of Mr Corbyn, Sir Michael Lyons said he could “understand why people are worried” about impartiality at the public broadcaster. He added that the charter renewal process had “certainly led to very real suspicions that ministers want to get much closer to the BBC. I can understand why people are worried about whether some of the most senior editorial voices at the BBC have lost their impartiality in this.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-biased-against-jeremy-corbyn-bbc-trust-chairman-sir-michael-lyons-a7026006.html

Excellent article here that exposes the media's biased reporting and establishment collusion against Corbyn.

Corbyn, the self-effacing, mild-mannered veteran activist who was elected with a larger mandate than any party leader in British history, and had pleaded for a “kinder, gentler politics”, has become the most media-persecuted politician since George Galloway protested the Iraq War. While the right-wing press is expected to be harsh on a Labour leader, biased coverage of Corbyn crosses traditional boundaries, infecting centre-left papers as well. The mainstream media’s seeming contempt for the people’s decision gives pause to anyone who values democracy, whatever one’s ideological persuasion, whether you agree with Corbyn’s policies or not.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kadira-pethiyagoda/jeremy-corbyn--the-people_b_11048424.html

Those who describe him as 'divisive' are not really far from the truth - I sincerely wish we had more 'divisive' politicians

A date for your diary:  Tonight at 9 pm on BBC 1 "Question Time" with Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith at daggers drawn.  The real question is whether David Dimbleby will spread his scorn equally between them or follow the standard BBC dictum Crush Corbyn.

An alternative blood-sport is showing at the same time on BBC2 TV in a documentary about fashion magazine Vogue.  Watch some clever women running rings around a bemused mere male interviewer.

How often have we not only heard, but used ourselves, the phrase "Don't rock the boat"?
Poor Aunty Beeb is always accused of bias by one side or the other, which must surely mean that it steers a middle course.  Under pressure from a controlling Tory administration financially (Labour councils will know the situation), it has to recognise that who pays the piper calls the tune.  

I'd like it to harass the current Government on a number of fronts - including the preceding posting - on beastliness to those most vulnerable in our Society and its two-faced treatment of the NHS.  But I'm biased.  As an individual may be entitled, but a public corporation is not.

One Norwegian's thoughts about Jeremy Corbyn:-


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I see today Corbyn's been castigated in the press for allegedly dancing a jig at the Cenotaph - of course he didn't and it's all a bit of a storm in a teacup

However, in other news, a picture of Clive Lewis from the South Norfolk constituency was posted on Facebook, showing Clive and a number of others at the Centotaph in Norfolk clearly sharing a jolly joke, grinning broadly and in short looking like they were lined up for a selfie. When I commented on this I was immediately shot down - apparently, it's OK to attend a commemoration service wearing a happy smile and sharing a joke - as long as the poppy's in place.

I sort of think a politician, attending a public event should act a little more congruently - seems I'm wrong - as long as the red poppy is there anything goes

The gutter press refer to such practices as "knocking copy".

I suspect that much of the criticism expressed about Mr Corbyn is written well in advance and stored in computer memory until required.

It won't stop, which is actually good news, because if the Tories weren't afraid of him there'd be no need for knocking copy.

It's astonishing that she remains so impartial, and manages to suppress her natural prejudices. I wonder how she got the job.......nothing to do with Daddy I suppose.....

London

Corbyn is happy to call himself a socialist, and no one has objected to him being called leftwing.
Leftwingers” can win, but it does not happen often.
The Blairite rule is that Labour loses general elections when it heads left.
Corbyn is ignoring what many people believe are the lessons of the general election.
A lot depends on how well a leader can change public opinion, and as yet there is little evidence that Corbyn will be a great persuader.
He is the antithesis of a career politician - in fact, it would be hard to find a politician less careerist – he doesn’t speak in politico-cliche about hard-working families and he is self-effacing, modest and frugal.
Ultimately elections are about choosing a prime minister, and even many Corbyn admirers find it hard to see him walking through the door of 10 Downing Street.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/12/jeremy-corbyn-is-he-really-unelectable-as-prime-minister

Washington

Donald Trump is an arrogant bully.
He is an avowed Racist.
He doesn't pay taxes.
Gropes women and boasts about it.
Seeks confrontation with World Leaders.
Has no political experience whatever.

All of which must surely render such a persona unelectable.

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Presumably this is the answer to that question:-


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