All right-thinking people regard David Abraham, the chief executive of Channel 4, as being morally superior to Dawn Neesom, the editor of the Daily Star.
By modern standards, Channel 4 is a great liberal institution. Its dramas, when it can afford to make them, are edgy and transgressive. Its journalists make no effort to hide their leftish biases. Indeed, they appear so confident that only the corrupt or the wicked could disagree with them that I doubt that they regard their biases as biases at all – simply the attitudes any serious person must possess.
The Daily Star by contrast is sub-literate rag for onanistic underclass men that mixes soft pornography with hard right politics.
Neesom and Abraham move in separate worlds. In the unlikely event of their ever meeting, they would think that they had nothing in common.
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