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Speechless, really. Haven’t we enough bad news to deal with for at least a lifetime?
Johnson poised to appoint Paul Dacre chair of Ofcom
PM’s choice of controversial former Mail editor is part of his election promise to radically overhaul the BBC
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/31/johnson-poised-to-appoint-paul-dacre-chair-of-ofcom
They're.
Trolling.
Us.
It's a move right out of the Trump playbook - appoint industry cronies to wreck institutions they don't believe in.
It's supposed to be "poacher turned gamekeeper" not "poacher also being gamekeeper"
But yep, this is basically a Devos or Pruitt or Wheeler appointment
There will be two imbeciles on this forum delighted with this news.
There will be two imbeciles on this forum delighted with this news.
For the record I don't plan to be one of them. Never sure if I qualify as an imbecile or not so don't want any confusion 🙂
Saw this the other day. Rolled my eyes, added it to the list of crap things I have no control over that make me embarrassed by the country of my birth and ancestry and decided to try and ignore it (but clearly failing by grumbling about it here!).
I'm rarely shocked by Govt these days, this came close.
Later stages of coup surely?
Being British we don't send armoured cars down the roads.
We are far to civilized for that, you just convince the populous there was no coup. Partly by controlling the media.
Sovereignty innit. With Johnston as the sovereign.
Wait till GB News gets rolling- fully funded right wing media.
They first floated this about a year ago.
I don’t think for a second they’ll do it. Not least because Dacre has retired to sit and count his cash and couldn’t be arsed
They’re just putting it out there (again) as the bogeyman to bring the BBC and Channel 4 to heal
Not that they really need to make much effort with the BBC. After the last ten years of not even thinly veiled threats, our once-great national broadcaster has long since succumbed to Stockholm Syndrome
Rumour was he turned it down when he found out how "little" it paid.
New title for head of Ofcom - "Minister for Propaganda".
Wait till GB News gets rolling- fully funded right wing media
I reckon this is possibly more worrying.
GBB News "opinion led" tells you all you need to know.