At Labour’s Conference I heard the voices of the poor, the oppressed, the ignored, and the patronised
Labour’s
conference may not yet have delivered a fully perfected programme –
but hearing working class voices everywhere was a breath of fresh
air, despite the media sneers.
Widespread media hostility to
Labour was on maximum revs during and in the immediate aftermath of
the Party Conference. Labour can expect nothing favourable from the
likes of the Daily Mail or the Murdoch press, but the coverage in
much of the self-styled ‘liberal’ press and supposedly
‘impartial’ broadcast media was more dispiriting.
The Independent opted for a nasty,
distorted interpretation of everything Jeremy Corbyn said in his
closing address. The Guardian was at least largely positive with both
Polly Toynbee and Owen Jones among the enthusiasts.
But Channel Four’s Jon Snow
conducted a belligerent interview with Jeremy Corbyn during the
Conference in which he belaboured the Labour leader on Brexit and on
Venezuela. And the BBC was more subtly dismissive. Political Editor
Laura Kuenssberg completed an on-air report by wondering aloud if the
enthusiasm for Corbyn was just a fad. BBC Assistant Political Editor
Norman Smith questioned the public’s appetite for Labour’s new
radicalism and suggested that the public would baulk at anything
other than marginal change. This is opinion, not reporting. Their
effect if not their intention is to put doubt into the minds of
listeners. I have yet to hear anyone at the BBC describe fans of
Boris Johnson as faddists; or the change implied by Brexit as
“marginal”.
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