14-03-2023, 01:12 AM
(13-03-2023, 11:40 PM)Kojak Wrote:You can understand the stick Fiona Bruce is getting? You're kidding right?(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.
This is exactly what I'm talking about, its so insidious people don't realise what's happened. Please please don't follow that route in your life, you seem like a sound person.
NO she didn't "stick up" for anyone as social media morons and extremists have told you. She READ OUT a pre agreed part of a script producers INSTRUCTED her to read if the topic came up (would have been part of pre show discussion with panel and production, so would have a idea where it may go)
That's a LEGAL requirement to obay the fairness provisions of Broadcast codes that make up Ofcom and BBC service licences. Where a person/topic isn't there to defend themselves or put a view. It's not about defamation (as some smart ass twiter people point out isn't a factor) it's the applicable codes.
Nothing 'poor' not 'excusing ' anyone. Fiona was no more intellectually or emotionally engaged with those words than a train station announcer.
Not my opinion, not a debate, those are the actual facts anyone who's ever been involved with live radio or TV would know as indisputable. It's the live/as live version of content warnings, apologies for language or flashing images
Hopefully you can see how these social media extremist have twisted a basic requirement of TV production to target an individual who they felt deviated slightly from words they find acceptable. It's crazy, it's designed to play on feelings about a subject and the use that emotional response as a weapon.
On a micro level, you read the Bruce comments and thought what you've been told she did, she actually did. You've been groomed, successfully it seems as you repeated the lie as fact (unknowingly)
Now even though it has faults, GB News is targeted the same way.