When the Left complains that Donald Trump's an authoritarian for opposing the "prestige media," be aware that the Left insists that their media establishment must be defined as "trusted news." They've succeeded in pushing that view on the Big Four news apps -- Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo.
Now Kurt Zindulka at Breitbart cited a report from London’s Daily Telegraph, that the Labour Party government under lame-duck prime minister Keir Starmer is set to hold talks this week on plans to require companies such as Facebook and YouTube to prioritize content produced by publicly-owned media broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 4.
Imagine if the Biden administration had demanded that Facebook and YouTube promote PBS journalism as the gold standard. That's a very self-promoting media initiative. But the BBC is best known in recent months for its malignantly false editing of a Donald Trump speech from January 6, making it sound like he called on his supporters to riot inside the Capitol.
The following month, the British public broadcaster was forced to admit that it had shared fake news about President Trump supposedly wanting to put former Congresswoman Liz Cheney in front of a “firing squad,” when he actually criticized her as a war hawk: "Let’s put her with a rifle standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?"
Recently, a BBC presenter wrongfully asserted three times that Nigel Farage had said “white, cold rage” was justified in response to Henry Nowak’s death in police handcuffs because his murderer said he was a racist. In reality, the Reform boss had said that “pure, cold rage” was an understandable public response.
Labour's plans aren't just intended to prop up failing BBC. The government also plans on pressuring social media firms to promote their supportive private media establishment, including ITV.
The Telegraph quoted anonymous sources within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, said they were pressuring the social-media giants in order to help the British public “discover trusted news sources” on the internet.
