Author Topic: Is daytime tv right wing?  (Read 833 times)


Rhiannon

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Re: Is daytime tv right wing?
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2017, 08:39:41 PM »
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Rhiannon

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Re: Is daytime tv right wing?
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2017, 08:39:58 PM »
Leaving aside the assumption that daytime telly exists just for the older people, I think the idea that it makes people feel insecure is interesting. So why isn't the left therefore seen as a place of security?

Eta there we are. Finally got the stupid thing to work.

Shaker

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Re: Is daytime tv right wing?
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2017, 08:43:50 PM »
Leaving aside the assumption that daytime telly exists just for the older people
Ridiculous.

Everybody knows it's for older people, lazy students and benefits-scrounging scum.

When the unutterably loathsome J***** K*** tells his guests to ignore the studio audience as "they should be at work" you know (a) that you're deep into Toryland and (b) that irony has just booked its ticket to Zurich.
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Rhiannon

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Re: Is daytime tv right wing?
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2017, 08:48:50 PM »
Ridiculous.

Everybody knows it's for older people, lazy students and benefits-scrounging scum.

When the unutterably loathsome J***** K*** tells his guests to ignore the studio audience as "they should be at work" you know (a) that you're deep into Toryland and (b) that irony has just booked its ticket to Zurich.

You know far more about JK than I do. My experience of daytime tv consists largely of makeover shows and tennis.

Shaker

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Re: Is daytime tv right wing?
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2017, 08:53:34 PM »
You know far more about JK than I do.
Not by free choice, I fucking don't.
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My experience of daytime tv consists largely of makeover shows and tennis.
Same ... apart from the tennis.

I'll have no word said against Homes Under the Hammer and Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away; fine televisual output for any man Jack and call me Barbara if it isn't so.

They're harmless entertainment.

There are other elements which are anything but, IMHO, however.

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Re: Is daytime tv right wing?
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2017, 09:07:03 PM »
That article tries to cover quite a bit in a short space. I'm not a daytime TV watcher but on the odd occasion I'll put it on and did see that dreadful shouting man, Jeremy Kyle, saying it was quite right for people to grass on neighbours who might be defrauding the benefit system. Apparently that can be done anonymously!

He is so bloody out of touch with ordinary peoplen who try to stretch their money to pay their bills and put food on the table. He should have my job where I see hardship all the time, last week a young woman in her thirties, one parent family of one child, had asked her mum & dad to lend her twenty quid until payday because she had nothing - AND THEY REFUSED! She did manage in the end, her 14 year old son had a few pounds in his piggy bank which she borrowed - but she was so upset. It was an outrage.

If this government was fairer no-one would have to try to get money in an underhand way.

What sort of 'caring' or 'big' society has people who spy on eachother and report them if they suspect they get a few more quid?  The real frauds go unnoticed and untouched, it's the ordinary people who suffer.

I couldn't care less & would turn a blind eye if someone earns a bit on the side, it's better than starving.

Disgusting.

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