It’s not a good time to be a member of the MSM, aka mainstream media. A quick look at alternative news outlets like the Corbynista Canary will tell you that reports from the MSM are frequently inaccurate. What’s more, the Guardian now appear to have joined the cause. On Monday, the paper published an article by Piers Robinson suggesting Russia Today, al-Jazeera and Press TV should not be off-limits as while they may be biased so is much western media.
So, what are the alternatives? Mr S was intrigued last month when Paul Mason — the former Channel 4 economics editor turned revolutionary — announced to much fanfare that he would be launching a public service ‘Brexit Bulletin’. The daily update promised to cut through the ‘dire, confused and biased’ MSM:
The MSM is so dire, confused and biased right now I’m going to go "public service” and issue a daily bullet of what is actually happening…
— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) July 1, 2016
Indeed in the first bulletin — which appeared to just list the main headline news of the day — Mason claimed he was ‘cutting through the UK media Brexit bulls–t’:
Brexit Daily Bulletin #1: 1 July 2016 14:30 BST
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