Media bias against Jeremy Corbyn

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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

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Presumably this is the answer to that question:-


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For so long as the propaganda machine favours right-wing capitalist opportunists, simple voters will think it sensible to align themselves alongside the apparent winners. The USA seems to be about to magnify inequality and discriminate against minorities. Britain has a tendency to adopt the American model.

If that is democracy we need a new dictionary definition, perhaps confirming that might is right and that greed is good.

It's so clear - yet people still seem to be fooled

I was just going to say that. Well not in the same words obviously. But with that customary British sympathy for the underdog, the relentless grinding down of JC in the media must surely have provoked some response in the floating voter.

All day today, 11 May 2017, certain elements of our free press have been gleefully reporting how Jeremy Corbyn's car ran over the foot of a BBC cameraman.

The BBC itself has not mentioned the matter.

It has never been more important for the voting public to assess how much value may be attached to any particle of the unending stream of "news" to which we are exposed.

Jeremy Corbyn's car ran over the foot of a BBC cameraman.

Meanwhile, Theresa May intends to ride roughshod over most of us.  

Do hope other people realise that in time.

Unflagging journalists uncovered important "news" surrounding Jeremy Corbyn:

"Files found by The Sunday Times in the London Metropolitan Archives show that Corbyn lobbied the Greater London Council (GLC) in the 1980s to fund a new group called the Irish in Islington Project."

The Monster!!!!!

Methinks they do protest too much.

(Borrowed from Shakespeare's Hamlet, I'll give it back on Friday)

Totally vile smears - surely people everywhere can see the desperation in this type of journalistic hyperbole

The journalistic hyperbole would be hilarious if its cumulative brain-washing were not so definitively skewing public perceptions. But that's what "Freedom of the Press" entails.

It seems our' strong and stable' Prime Minister may have opened a very nasty can of worms, while simultaneously poking a hornets nest

"A week is a long time in Politics" My apologies for trotting out that old chestnut yet again, but the difference between today's "Sunday Times" and the one of a week ago is like waking up from a bad dream.

All talk of a Hard Brexit has evaporated, and "Leadership Challenge" refers to a different leader of a different party. There is even a humorous report of election-night broadcasters' scripts being quietly shredded at 10.15 p.m. last Thursday.

BBC apologises after Tory donor insults Jeremy Corbyn

From an article by Graham Ruddick:-

The BBC has apologised after Jeremy Corbyn was called a “twat” in a Radio 4 interview by Charlie Mullins, the boss of Pimlico Plumbers. Mullins was being interviewed on Radio 4’s ‘World at One’ when host Martha Kearney asked whether the UK should attempt to remain part of the single market after Brexit. Mullins replied: “Course we should be staying in; Jeremy Corbyn’s a twat, ain’t he?” Kearney then apologised to the Labour leader for the comment, saying: “Well, we’ll definitely leave it there. Apologies to Jeremy Corbyn for the language used.”

Mullins appeared on ‘World at One’ to comment on a ruling by the Supreme Court that has caused the government to pledge that employment tribunals will be free. The UK’s highest court came down in favour of the trade union Unison, which argued that fees of up to £1,200 were preventing workers – especially those on lower incomes – from getting justice.

Pimlico Plumbers, which has donated more than £48,000 to the Conservative Party in the last two years, lost a separate case earlier this year against a plumber who challenged the company’s view that he was self-employed at an employment tribunal. Mullins told the radio programme that the scrapping of fees for employment tribunals was a “ridiculous, stupid, dangerous and irrational decision” and would lead to “malicious” claims from employees.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/26/bbc-apologises-after-tory-donor-insults-jeremy-corbyn

That Supreme Court decision is one of the few bright spots for me, currently - I never liked the ACAS early intervention offer - so many cases seemed to be settled out of court - and rarely were workers properly compensated - I began to feel ACAS were more for employers

The Supreme Court seems minded (as they say) to correct some of the worst excesses of Coalition rule, for which we should be grateful. Long may it last. Now for the bedroom tax.

Acas is big enough to defend itself, but the harsh and obvious reality is that Employers are the only source of money to settle a claim in most cases. Life being as it is, they have to be kept onside if the outcome is to be the desired compensation.

Which is why an independent Tribunal is essential

Parliament operates on the adversarial system, and we see every day just how well that works. Many legal professionals think that mediation is a better way forward, and nearly always cheaper than serried ranks of bewigged QCs and their Juniors. The County Court is increasingly reluctant to issue proceedings until mediation has demonstrably failed.

It can't hurt to discuss things before launching a full-scale fight.

But I'm often wrong.

Remembered tweet:

Jeremy Corbyn refuses to confirm or deny that he may have incurred a fine for an overdue library-book when he was younger !!