Let’s face it: most people who go on Good Morning are not invited on for their intellect, are they? They may have had an interesting life in the media or whatever, but their opinion is no more important than yours or mine, and yet we are not invited on. Many who have merely been on reality TV are now served up like a microwave dinner and a can of special brew. Very little of it is what the body needs, and mostly we pay for it later.
A classic example is Rylan Clark. To be honest, he makes my skin crawl, but that is merely my opinion. I do not want to go on TV and share it. Up until now I have kept it to myself. But now, to add to the uncomfortable skin sensation, I have to find out on social media that he is being asked about migration like some sort of expert. But an expert he isn’t, it appears. Then when there is a pile-on from social media, he instructs us all to have nuance. If I want nuance, I talk to learned people and those with many years of experience on a topic, not someone who makes my senses scream.
“What was it he said?” you ask. With a deep risk of sadism, here it be.
But why say something that is so blatantly untrue for the vast majority of migrants? And for those who have access, it is usually because of charity, not from the state.
Clark asks for nuance but provides the wrong information. How can there be nuance with inaccurate information?
What Clark is doing is becoming an egg to the likes of Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson’s alien host. He is feeding the horror they are creating with opinions that serve absolutely no one unless misinformation is your diet. He becomes their acid and their corrosion.
Therefore, my carefully chosen message to Good Morning presenters is to stick to the specialism of the guest, and if they wander off topic, warn the public that it is likely to be opinionated bullshit that will stink for months and possibly years.
