Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "US midterms: Has Trump fever finally broken?" video.

  1. I was under the impression from the internet (I don't live in the UK) that Channel 4 was a public broadcaster paid for by British taxpayers. But over the last few months of watching the content on this channel, I can't see how that's true. Everything seems to be dripping with political ideology. From the stories you choose to report (and equally those you don't), to the words and tone used, the angle chosen and the things you include even where they have no relevance. The tories get reported negatively, labour get reported positively to the point they get softball questions whilst Tories only received loaded ones. Governments should absolutely be held to account, but when you lowball questions to opposition you demonstrate a political bias that should not exist in a public broadcaster. Oppositions afterall are the alternative government and no bills pass without them. I mean the labour deputy leader was allowed to answer "what would you do about inflation" with "we'd give free school breakfast" and that frankly ridiculous answer not only wasn't confronted but was waved in as if it was a reasonable reply. Inflation has been utterly misrepresented by channel 4, with nonsense explanations, loaded shock questions, a focus on the poorest of the poor for shock value and an insistence that it's governments fault despite the testimony of impartial guest after guest to the contrary. There is this subtle push in this coverage that Labour would do better as if inflation wouldn't have hit at all if labour were in government which is obvious tosh. There's the constant characterisation of the war in Ukraine as illegal even though there is no such legal basis for that claim and the UN have been exceptionally clear that Russia haven't done anything that violates international law. It's objectively not an illegal war. Then there's the constant references to inflation being caused by said war, that's untrue. The war could rage on for centuries and have no impact on the global economy, Ukraine isn't that important to world finance. Inflation is being caused by the government imposed SANCTIONS which mess with the global energy market pushing up prices. That's only accentuated by the overspending by governments around the world in response to CoVID and the high demand low productivity that followed. It's not the war that's making prices go up, it's our (the west) involvement in it through sanctions and diversion of revenue into Ukraine at the worst possible time. This video goes on about Trump as if he's at all relevant and uses the particularly emotive language that democracy was on the line if democrats didn't hold the house. You don't get anymore partisan than that. There was a nonsense story the other day about Twitter blue ticks. Not like a 30 second filler piece, I full multicross segment because the reporters were pissed their personal words and opinions on twitter won't hold weight anymore. Everything here seems to be pushing political ideology, bias and tabloid sensationalism. But it's taxpayer funded, so where is the actual journalism? Does channel 4 even employ a single genuine journalist as opposed to presenters and reporters? If I were a UK taxpayer, and again I want to be clear that I'm not, I would be thoroughly upset channel 4 is allowed to push partisan agendas with taxpayer funds.
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