13-03-2023, 11:40 PM
(13-03-2023, 11:21 PM)Stockland Hillman Wrote: This separation that some people have that there's a fox news esque viewer base that is somehow different to the rest of society is nonsense.
It does exist, though. It is much, much smaller than some people (even on here) seem to think - but it does exist. You only have to look at the people on Twitter with #GBNews and #BackBoris in their names to see that. And certain parts of Reddit, too. But that's all I'll say politics-wise.
(13-03-2023, 11:21 PM)Stockland Hillman Wrote: You only need to look at the morons and extremists targeting Fiona Bruce for doing her job as instructed by producers and required by fairness provisions of the Broadcast Code and BBC equivalent, to understand that Left and right have a base of unhinged people who only tolerate views and expression through there lens
You are correct about there being a subset of people on both the left and the right who seek out echo chambers and reinforcement of their views - goodness knows, I have seen plenty of it on both sides. But I can understand the stick Fiona Bruce is getting this week (NOT the abuse, obviously!). It's pretty poor of her to essentially excuse Stanley Johnson's domestic abuse by saying "well, he only did it once!" I know she needs to be balanced, but she's not going about it in anywhere near the right way by saying things like that.