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So much for the EU being undemocratic

I can believe a UK government has been as undemocratic as trying to ban long standing mainstream papers such as the Mirror or Independent from a briefing. Good on the other journalists for telling them where to go. Glad I  didn't vote for that untrustworthy, shifty public Eton elitist, Boris Johnson. 

Michael Ixer ● 2473d9 Comments

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-7961767/Journalists-boycott-Number-10-briefing-Brexit.html

Michael Ixer ● 2473d

Same here Michael. Talk about living in a dystopian world.

Lucille Grant ● 2473d

This is absolutely awful.  Did Trump not do something similar when he took up office?Also, the government not allowing ministers to be interviewed by news programmes on the BBC is as horrific as it is frightening.

Ivonne Holliday ● 2473d

And we can expect a lot more of the same from our new glorious government. Genuinely frightening.Nick

Nicholas Evans ● 2473d

It is truly frightening, but then I think the media have brought this on themselves.  They print lies and skew news to be presented in a certain way, which is not honest.  Not to mention phone hacking and planting fake people to secretly film people. They're reaping what they've sewed for decades, I hope there is a massive clearout of lying newscasters.Of course there is the other side where poor Alistair Stewart, a seemingly honest and decent newsman, has been pillored by the 'woke' and deeply dis-honest and biased section of our society.

Bunny Payne ● 2473d

The original link I posted seems to have changed, I think this is better:https://pressgazette.co.uk/lobby-journalists-walkout-selective-government-briefings-barred-titles/@Bunny. I agree some  papers' reporting is dubious but I'd say some of the organisations excluded - Huffpost, I, Independent - are reasonably objective most of the time so I'd say that wasn't a justification for this. It seems very underhand.

Michael Ixer ● 2472d

I just tried your original link and it seemed to work OK.

Ivonne Holliday ● 2472d

"They print lies and skew news to be presented in a certain way, which is not honest.  Not to mention phone hacking and planting fake people to secretly film people. They're reaping what they've sewed for decades, I hope there is a massive clearout of lying newscasters."Boris Johnson, the journalist, is hardly likely to be the person to sort out the media. He is in the game, and has benefited from the distortion.

David Ainsworth ● 2472d

From Twitter:-“First they came for the journalists... Then they... well, we don’t know what happened after that”...

David Ainsworth ● 2472d