(31-05-2023, 08:41 AM)Brekkie Wrote: Of course the reality is that ITV Daytime has pretty much morphed into Daily Mail TV over the last couple of years, but that's still not right wing enough for them.
Respectfully, I really cannot see where this is coming from. ITV Daytime presenters include people who are openly very left-wing, for example Adil Ray and Ed Balls, alongside folk about whom I know nothing of their political persuasion, e.g. Dermot O'Leary, Lorraine Kelly etc. Loose Women has so many different people in their line-ups, there are a mixture of all views represented there.
I think - and this isn't aimed specifically at you but is more a comment on the human condition generally - if you have a strong proclivity toward one side of the spectrum, you'll find yourself noticing when the other side of the argument is represented with disproportionate regard. When you hear people giving views you agree with, their speech washes over you. When someone is saying something you entirely disagree with, it fires you up and sticks in your memory. Similar to being more likely to refer to a bad experience you recently had in a restaurant, while the ten perfectly good experiences sit tucked away silently at the back of your mind. If you were very right-wing, you could easily look at the ITV Daytime output and find reason to grumble it's too left-leaning, and if you were very left-wing, you could look at the same output and find reason to argue it leans too far right.
Pairings like Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid seem to have a good 'yin and yang' quality about them, Lorraine very seldom gets political in any event and, as referenced, the Loose Women team has people from all backgrounds and persuasions so there's always someone to give an opposing view there. Ultimately, I think it's about as balanced as you could reasonably ever expect.