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"...now, as the DCMS committee report suggests, in the post-Trump, post-Brexit information world, the pillar of journalistic ‘balance’ has cracked." theneweuropean.co.uk//top-stories/g…
"Consider this dilemma. A journalist standing on the White House lawn seeks to be accurate and fair, but what does she do when the most powerful democratically-elected leader in the world lies – repeatedly, obviously and unashamedly?"
"...is it necessary to ‘balance’ a public lie with some Trump loyalist telling us the president employs ‘alternative facts’?"
"The 'crisis in our democracy' comes because maintaining quaint ideas of ‘balance’ in a world filled with ‘systematic disinformation’ is now an existential threat to the country we love, the Britain of the Enlightenment, a place of facts, science and reasoned argument."
"That means we have to get serious about the lies about Brexit. What ‘balance’ is necessary in a media world in which secretive 'campaigns of disinformation' sow hate through the ‘systematic manipulation of data?’ "
#Brexit BBC: "...confronting expert opinion and elected representatives on television with articulate know-nothing non-experts of dubious provenance financed by who-knows-what, is not ‘balance’. It is a disservice to our people, our country, and to facts, accuracy and fairness."
THANK YOU @gavinesler - finally, all that is wrong with #Brexit #UKMedia, all in one excoriating article. Compulsory reading for all #journalism students.

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