Restless public holds up Jon Snow monstering of ‘death minister’ Hancock as example of how media should hold Tories to account
People are getting tired of the BBC and other Tory-supporting media letting Boris Johnson’s government get away with its mistakes.
That’s why this drubbing of Tory “death minister” Matt Hancock by Channel 4’s Jon Snow – carried out while Parliament was deadlocked over Brexit last year – has suddenly become hugely popular on Twitter.
Snow? It’s more like a blizzard:
We’re all Jon Snow. pic.twitter.com/R4rSdS8QGu
— James Copley (@JamesCopley_) September 28, 2020
People haven’t been holding back in their criticisms of certain hacks in the mainstream media:
If any journalist who works for #bbcnews wants to see how a real journalist asks questions of Cabinet Ministers watch Jon Snow on #C4News interviewing Matt Hancock, he didn't just hold him to account, he monstered him, proper journalism, i suggest you study it @bbclaurak
— Loz Argyle (@ArgyleLoz) September 29, 2020
Jon Snow was like a blizzard in the face of Death Secretary @MattHancock . Kuensbergg, and all you sycophants that is what being a journalist is all about. Honesty, integrity, and holding snivelling liars to account.
— Matthew Payne (@Matthew82069336) September 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1310709264831389704
Will it do any good? Of course not.
As I type this, the BBC’s Politics Live has been discussing Chris Bryant’s nomination of US Presidential candidate Joe Biden for the Nobel Peace Prize rather than any of the disasters that the Tories are bringing to the UK.
Perhaps they’ll get around to the Tory cowards who are abstaining on the Internal Market Bill that plans to break international law and return violence to Northern Ireland later but I doubt it.
Oh look! They’re discussing Boris Johnson’s daft speech about re-skilling people for the post-Covid economy as if he knows what he’s talking about.
Perhaps we should all just adopt the Jon Snow ‘blizzard’ approach whenever we see our own Tory MPs instead.
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