Sky News is Sky News. You know what you are going to get. Puppets speaking in his master’s voice. Half dressed women next to suited men. Their appearance reflects the new conservatism. Women who want to be successful must be desirable to a certain demographic and the men must bring an air of respectability. Intellectually they have been chosen to play the game. A brand of reactionary politics built upon the foundations of an oligarch who sets out the parameters. Never was there a case more obvious than this ‘discussion’ about the massacre of over 50 people in a LGBT club in Orlando.
If this had been in a Catholic church in Northern Ireland it would have been ‘sectarian’. If it had been in a synagogue it would have been ‘anti Semitic’. However it was in an LGBT club and therefore it was a crime against people having a good time. If it had been in a Catholic church a member of the Catholic community would have been interviewed. Would they have been told that it mattered not that they were Catholic? If it had been in a synagogue would the spokesperson been told that their Jewishness was irrelevant? But because they are LGBT their sexuality has no substance apparently.
The fact he lasted so long and then walked off set is a testament to his patience and self control. The response by most of the media will be predictable. Misogynist reactionaries singing like canaries with laryngitis. Ignore them and think for ourselves.
Sky News is Sky News and it always will be until we all switch off. Ignore it and think for ourselves.
Douglas James