Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈18h ago

"Things UK Journalists Can't Say Out Loud"

#FourthEstate #UKMedia #SkyNews #BBCBias #NigelFarage #FarageRiots #Farage #TwoTierPolicing #Whiteness

N-gated Hacker News1d ago
😱 Oh, the horror! The UK media seems to treat disclosing defence links like a game of hide and seek... but forgets the "seek" part 60% of the time. 🔍 Perhaps they should try "journalism"—rumor has it, it's all the rage these days! 📉
https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/ #UKMedia #DefenceLinks #Journalism #Accountability #InvestigativeReporting #HackerNews #ngated
Military experts or arms industry insiders? UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases - AOAV

Here AOAV finds that UK media outlets frequently present retired senior military figures as independent defence experts without disclosing their commercial ties to defence, security, intelligence, and technology industries, potentially obscuring conflicts of interest in public debates over war and military spending.

AOAV
Hacker News1d ago

UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases

https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

#HackerNews #UKmedia #DefenceSector #Transparency #Journalism #MilitaryLinks #Accountability

Military experts or arms industry insiders? UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases - AOAV

Here AOAV finds that UK media outlets frequently present retired senior military figures as independent defence experts without disclosing their commercial ties to defence, security, intelligence, and technology industries, potentially obscuring conflicts of interest in public debates over war and military spending.

AOAV
PPC Land1d ago
FYI: Smart TVs overtake computers as Britain's second podcast screen: 45% of UK monthly podcast consumers now watch on smart TVs, Signal Hill finds, with 84% already watching video - far ahead of the US at 62% and Canada at 75%. https://ppc.land/smart-tvs-overtake-computers-as-britains-second-podcast-screen/ #SmartTVs #Podcasts #UKMedia #VideoStreaming #DigitalTrends
Smart TVs overtake computers as Britain's second podcast screen

45% of UK monthly podcast consumers now watch on smart TVs, Signal Hill finds, with 84% already watching video - far ahead of the US at 62% and Canada at 75%.

PPC Land
PPC Land4d ago
Smart TVs overtake computers as Britain's second podcast screen: 45% of UK monthly podcast consumers now watch on smart TVs, Signal Hill finds, with 84% already watching video - far ahead of the US at 62% and Canada at 75%. https://ppc.land/smart-tvs-overtake-computers-as-britains-second-podcast-screen/ #SmartTVs #Podcasts #UKMedia #VideoStreaming #DigitalTrends
Smart TVs overtake computers as Britain's second podcast screen

45% of UK monthly podcast consumers now watch on smart TVs, Signal Hill finds, with 84% already watching video - far ahead of the US at 62% and Canada at 75%.

PPC Land
Ian RobinsonMay 18

Gosh.

Sky and ITV insiders say takeover deal is 'weeks away' amid onslaught of US streamers

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-05-14/sky-and-itv-deal-is-weeks-away-and-will-protect-them-agaisnt-us-streamers

#UKMedia

wMay 17

One of the tabloids - I think it’s the Sunday Express - has a headline along the lines of ‘Fears Labour turmoil will wreck Brexit’.

Wreck Brexit! Do you cry or laugh? No need in the UK for a wormhole to travel to a parallel universe.

#ukpolitics #brexit #SundayExpress #Labour #LabourParty #tabloids #ukmedia #UK_politics #labourLeadership #rightwingmedia #ukpolitics2026

Richard QuinnMay 5

"Reform want to round up migrants and detain them indefinitely in areas that don’t vote for them.

Yet for most of our media, it’s those marching for Palestine who are creating hatred & fear.

These disgusting plans are an affront to democracy — and must be fiercely opposed."

— #JeremyCorbyn

https://bsky.app/profile/jeremycorbyn.bsky.social/post/3mkzrndbrdk2z

#Reform #ReformUK #Palestine #UKpol #migrants #UKmedia

Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social)

Reform want to round up migrants and detain them indefinitely in areas that don’t vote for them. Yet for most of our media, it’s those marching for Palestine who are creating hatred & fear. These disgusting plans are an affront to democracy — and must be fiercely opposed.

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Steven HeywoodMay 3

I've never had a lot of time for Trevor Phillips in his various incarnations, but having now seen his interview of Zack Polanski it appears I've been giving him too much credit.

#UKPolitics
#UKMedia

Claire McNabMay 1

It's #PolanskiPileOn day in the #UKmedIa. Special bonus prize to #TheTimes for putting 'sorry' in #ScareQuotes!

Tomorrow, in all papers on all pages, and in every TV news ahow:

1/ Polanski's Wicked Plan To Build Houses And Cut Energy Bills Proves That He is An Evil Monster
2/ How To Keep Your Child Safe From Polanski
3/ People Who Oppose Genocide Scare Me
4/ The Loon Who Thinks That Kicks In The Head Are Not Great

#ukpol #GPEW #PileOn