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I think Kurnsberg/Farage is a false equivalence. Farage’s views are so pernicious and stir up so much hatred and LBC is the one media outlet that has consistently given him a platform. I don’t think this is about ceding ground it’s about taking money from an organisation which will happily promote racist views. Why not leave and take your 1.4m listeners with you? Surely that does more good than slagging him off to a bunch of people who won’t change their views and think you’re a woke lefty.
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I’d argue he has more potential to move the needle by being on LBC than moving elsewhere and shouting into an echo chamber of his established sympathetic listeners.
I see it as similar to Pete Buttigieg regularly going on Fox News in the USA and being an effective communicator and challenger to right wing bullshit.
I am sure there are many instances where the BBC has been overtly racist. Should no left of centre work journalists work at the BBC for fear of taking money from a racist state broadcaster? Given the levels of institutional racism in the UK can no one work for an organisation or company if there are any signs of institutional racism or discrimination?
dancing james
Can you find a mainstream media that doesn’t have commentators representing both sides? What is your suggestion, that anyone with a decent set opinions should step down from a media channel where someone reprehensible like Farage is a presenter?
I really don’t understand your point. Should all left wing journalists leave the BBC because of Laura Kurnsberg?