Why We Have The Worst Media In The Western World | Downstream

In The UK, the last few decades have shown the steepest decline in trust in the media globally, second only to Egypt. How did we get here? Is it as simple as Rupert Murdoch wielding his malice more fervently here then elsewhere? Or are there insidious cultural factors that meant our newspapers, and increasingly our broadcasters, were destined to be made more boring, inaccurate and corrupt?
To discuss this Ash is joined by Aaron Bastani.
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  • @lynnhickinbotham3784
    @lynnhickinbotham3784 Жыл бұрын

    I’m 70 years old and the only hope we have are young people like you Wish we could see more off you on TV your honesty integrity and knowledge is amazing

  • @Blacktolite

    @Blacktolite

    Жыл бұрын

    UK media is the fakeest fake news to ever exist

  • @katong1953

    @katong1953

    Жыл бұрын

    I grew up pro-US and pro-west. Then came disclosure that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was faked by the US to expand rhe Vietnam War. Even then, I made excuses for the US, telling myself that it was an one-off aberration. Then, in the run-up to the war on Iraq on false pretence, I could see the US steadfastly insisting on Iraqi having WMD, even though no evidence was produced, other than a vial of white powder, which Colin Powell had no hesitation in holding in his hand, and even though the UN inspectors had said Iraq had no WMD. My trust in the US and western mainstream media fell to zero. Then came the BBC report that Syria had used chemical WMD on a bunch of civilian stragglers. The first thing that came to my mind was why would Syria use WMD on powerless, harmless civilian stragglers. Yet, the BBC reported it without hesitation. Surely, experienced journalists could not be so naive. They were intentionally lying! My trust in western governments and mainstream media fell below zero into negative territory. Then came reports in all western mainstream media of the fake Xinjiang genocide -- without a single body produced for the alleged genocide. My trust in western government and mainstream media fell into a bottomless pit. In the Ukraine war, I could (using corroborative evidence and critical thinking) see that western governments and mainstream media have been lying on an epic, criminally fraudulent scale. My trust in western governments and mainstream media is lost forever.

  • @russellmathews3599

    @russellmathews3599

    Жыл бұрын

    Snap .....

  • @Torquemadia

    @Torquemadia

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you joking? He literally whines about the Observer because they didn't review his book. These are the sort of mouthpieces which will keep the tories in power.

  • @Anygodwilldo

    @Anygodwilldo

    Жыл бұрын

    "the only hope"??? what - dishonest whining fake-communists, always pretending to be victims? Behave mate

  • @swarupawalker7904
    @swarupawalker7904 Жыл бұрын

    I am 80 and love N M . Left the Guardian 2 years ago after years of reading it . Please keep going . WWE need you and thank you

  • @ritaappleby2432
    @ritaappleby2432 Жыл бұрын

    I’m 74 years old and love to listen to you guys. So refreshing, informative and encouraging. Keep going. ❤

  • @Blacktolite

    @Blacktolite

    Жыл бұрын

    You're 74 years old but it took you this long?? 🙄🙄 you oldl people are responsible for this young falling behind

  • @ishents1

    @ishents1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Blacktolite you wrong man. We are only now seeing the extent of the lies they were told. We got Internet they had word of mouth or TV propaganda. We all to blame still letting them get away with talking Pure Shit.

  • @wigwam1955
    @wigwam1955 Жыл бұрын

    I’m 67! White bloke and I love you! A breath of fresh air. Keep up the great work.

  • @stanleybeckett7705

    @stanleybeckett7705

    Жыл бұрын

    64, white Irish (living in England) and devoted to NM. They probably have more older viewers than they realise. Think by this stage in life, if you do not recognise BS you have gone wrong. NM is a no BS zone.

  • @thebingleywheeler
    @thebingleywheeler Жыл бұрын

    As a retired (fairly senior) British Police officer I cut an unlikely profile as a subscriber to your channel, however I find your content is refreshingly accurate and impartial in a way which gives the lie to the modern political zeitgeist and cuts through the establishment propaganda machine (and a lazy brained population sleepwalking through the relentless glacial erosion of their own living standards whilst the ruling classes cynically exploit their sedentary status through a mainstrem media driven strategy of misinformation and gaslighting). Having served in a very large northern police force for 30 years from the early 80s I can attest to it's being a microcosm of the operation of the malign intent and contrived divisions now prevailing in broader British society. NM is required viewing for me and I fervently hope you will continue to thrive, indeed my instinct is that history will judge your work as pivotal in driving what must inevitably become an age of enlightenment when the emperor's nakedness will be there for all to see. To that end, and in my own modest way, I'll be supporting you via your website…Keep the faith guys, All the best, David

  • @biffa1234100

    @biffa1234100

    Жыл бұрын

    BLOODY HELL HOW REFRESHING TO HEAR A POLICEMAN SPEAK THE TRUTH .THANK YOU SIR

  • @needlessoptions

    @needlessoptions

    Жыл бұрын

    Just as precise and articulate as it is fucking basedddd - love this take

  • @thebingleywheeler

    @thebingleywheeler

    Жыл бұрын

    @@biffa1234100 thank you….I feel compelled to 👍🏻

  • @davethehatatkins708

    @davethehatatkins708

    Жыл бұрын

    Very well put, thank-you..

  • @Blacktolite

    @Blacktolite

    Жыл бұрын

    British media fake distorted agenda-driven Media

  • @dstuart5612
    @dstuart5612 Жыл бұрын

    63 years white Scottish, thank gdness for NM. Really appreciate real humans who know their stuff and speak intelligently and truthfully, about the state of things we all can see happening. Love you both for your clear and honest comment. Keep up the good work.

  • @zenster1097

    @zenster1097

    Жыл бұрын

    "I'm a white person who simp to minorities who hate me." Round of applause.

  • @ShaunieDale
    @ShaunieDale Жыл бұрын

    I’m 63, a white southerner home owner and I love Novara Media and what you guys are doing. I don’t agree with everything you say, but here’s the thing, that’s good! Beliefs need to be challenged, otherwise how will you know if you believe the correct things?

  • @RedSaint83

    @RedSaint83

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. Mainstream media is getting ever more coloured a certain way, so it's nice to have an alternative that presents the news in a more human light.

  • @maxine2798

    @maxine2798

    Жыл бұрын

    Come back when you own a few more homes!! You’re right. You’re absolutely right to carry on being open minded. As you get older, having this understanding of how the older folks are treated (you’re still young to me!) as an example should keep you onboard with NM.

  • @ShaunieDale

    @ShaunieDale

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maxine2798 the banking debacle of 2008 hurt me badly, I’m self-employed. My mortgage would have finished in 2020, I had to remortgage, it won’t be paid until I’m 75. The only way my three kids will get on the housing ladder is when I sell up and divide it up between them! It annoys me that young adults nowadays will not have the chances we had.

  • @progpuss

    @progpuss

    Жыл бұрын

    We need you to counteract the right wing dross , keep up the great work

  • @Blacktolite

    @Blacktolite

    Жыл бұрын

    You're claiming you are 63 years old, this has been happening since you have been 23. Why take so long to smell the coffee ☕

  • @robertwinslade3104
    @robertwinslade3104 Жыл бұрын

    Small independent media like you guys will hopefully be the saving grace of British news media

  • @ericthompson3729
    @ericthompson3729 Жыл бұрын

    I’m a 65 year old white male served in the forces then spent 25 years in the fire service I’m depressed by the state of the British politics and the British media I see no way out

  • @helenswan705

    @helenswan705

    Жыл бұрын

    it's pretty gloomy isn't it. You are not alone.

  • @the_famous_reply_guy

    @the_famous_reply_guy

    Жыл бұрын

    Read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, small book.

  • @syddog44

    @syddog44

    Жыл бұрын

    We're all getting as black pilled as Peter Hitchins. It's orge.

  • @henrypierce8900

    @henrypierce8900

    9 ай бұрын

    Et, keep the faith!

  • @rubstroll1
    @rubstroll1 Жыл бұрын

    It could be worse… thankfully we have NOVARÁ MEDIA❤❤🎉

  • @eaglerider11
    @eaglerider11 Жыл бұрын

    70 yo Scottish woman here Ash! Yes, am really concerned about way country is going. Never want to see people struggling once again as they did in the 50's. MSM doesnt tell us properly what is going on in England and UK wide. Keep on speaking up, all of yous!

  • @patcampton7163
    @patcampton7163 Жыл бұрын

    I'm thankful for the day I discovered Novara. I'm 75. I love you young people. It gives me hope for the future. My Dad was a trade union man on the railways. He was intelligent and quietly gave me a grounding in democratic socialism. I have never lost it.

  • @maxgodwin398
    @maxgodwin398 Жыл бұрын

    A really beautiful, informative episode of Downstream. I'm 53, worried about my country and my world, and struggling personally. Don't believe in this young and old divide. I know there is some validity to it statistically, but most ordinary people, though some may be in denial, are suffering at the hands of the current regime whether they're willing to fully acknowledge it or not. You're not alone, you're doing great work. Genuine and thoughtful criticism aside, take every idiot who slurs you as a badge of honour. You are, it seems, pissing off all the right people.

  • @nigeltown6999
    @nigeltown6999 Жыл бұрын

    Why do you think that the banking crisis was a failure? It was a total success; it made the rich richer - just "exactly" what they wanted.

  • @taranehahmadi-parker1412
    @taranehahmadi-parker1412 Жыл бұрын

    Guardian is the most underhand newspaper… they caused Jeremy’s defeat in 2019 .. always suspicious of guardian .

  • @johnfitzpatrick3197

    @johnfitzpatrick3197

    Жыл бұрын

    The Guardian was actually the frontrunner in the witch hunt against Corbyn. Always prime item on their website. It's great on a number of things but tbis stops me paying for their content. Grest the Guardian gets called out here. Pernicious!

  • @gs8099

    @gs8099

    Жыл бұрын

    The Guardian has changed and it's now more like MSM. It's also becoming a more cautious not to publish articles that can challenge the path is taken by the UK labour moving to a position one can hardly distinguish from Tory in many respects or even democrat in the US pursuing to militarise further NATO, keeping quiet about the Nord Stream sabotage like all of them with no desire to investigate any particular aspects of this war unknown to masses and taking no interest in events around Julian Assange! It's now simply reporting rather than dissecting political matters deeply!

  • @empressdoinalot

    @empressdoinalot

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Forbidden Planet someone did that to me the other day. I said I don't read it, don't 'like' it on Facebook anymore and when I did and they would post their Corbyn smears the backlash in the comments was incredible

  • @johnnewton2949

    @johnnewton2949

    Жыл бұрын

    When it was the Manchester Guardian it claimed to support the Working Class - it didn't and still doesn't. I used to buy it for Steve Bell and brilliant feature writers like Mark Steel. When it became a Blairite rag I couldn't stomach the Editorials any longer, so stopped buying it. We have no National Daily supporting the Working Class. At best you get a lot of middle-class hand-wringing with lashings of wishy-washy liberalism.

  • @beegnutz

    @beegnutz

    Жыл бұрын

    Neolibs and right wingers have the same enemy

  • @mancmal
    @mancmal Жыл бұрын

    I'm what would have been called a blonde haire, bye eyed , Anglo Saxon male, who is in his 71st year, and I have to say that you guys are doing a brilliant job, Thank you 👍

  • @quinbrady
    @quinbrady Жыл бұрын

    I’m weirdly glad I was born in Newry in 1970. When you’re from British-Occupied Ireland, you never need illusions of media-veracity dispelled. “D-notice Great Britain”, 4th Estate? My arse.

  • @jamesmckenna8092

    @jamesmckenna8092

    Жыл бұрын

    I know.

  • @PantomimeHorse
    @PantomimeHorse Жыл бұрын

    When _did_ the Guardian become so reactionary? Was it when Rushbridger left? Was it when the security services took a hammer to their hard drives after the Snowden fiasco? Or was it earlier?

  • @randybackgammon890

    @randybackgammon890

    Жыл бұрын

    Not a lot of difference between the Guardian and the Mail when it comes to the Royal Mail situ, etc.Smacks of labour trying to garner right wing votes

  • @amritbhupal8514
    @amritbhupal8514 Жыл бұрын

    Great discussion guys although it would have been good to also discuss Murdoch’s role in the UK media and how his ownership of several publications and the constant propaganda from them has successfully shaped the national narrative, people’s thinking and voting habits, and government policy for the last 50 years. There’s a reason why many people see him as the most powerful figure in the country (some would say the world with the ownership of fox) as he alone has personally picked every PM and US president for that period. People think we live in Tory britain when in reality we live in Murdoch’s Britain! Even the rise of Nigel farage is effectively because of Murdoch’s support!

  • @mrcrofthistory7442

    @mrcrofthistory7442

    Жыл бұрын

    7😢6j

  • @Rich_H_1972
    @Rich_H_1972 Жыл бұрын

    50 year old straight white guy here and NM is the best news channel I've had the pleasure of watching and listening to. I don't always agree with everything you have to say but I love what you are all doing - especially when you get invited onto mainstream tv!

  • @sailyousuf
    @sailyousuf Жыл бұрын

    Friendly discussion like this between friends is refreshingly educational .

  • @Rick741
    @Rick741 Жыл бұрын

    White, 73 and really appreciate the work NM does - thanks. Can’t wait to hear about “all the fucked-up shit” Ash hears in the green room…

  • @joshc6569
    @joshc6569 Жыл бұрын

    Im from New Zealand, and recently we've recieved poll results showing decreased trust in media. Some experts then discussed this on our public radio station, one of them was from Finland where the media was much more trusted. Somebody raised the point that Finland had much less neoliberalism in it. This is rather obvious i know.

  • @stevenredpath9332
    @stevenredpath9332 Жыл бұрын

    I think the media reporting on the anti-poll tax campaign was a major factor in my dissolution with them. Add in studying sociology where we looked at how the media reported things like the miners strike and on youth cultures my disposition towards it was forever tainted. Incidents like Hillsborough just reinforce that perception. The lies around the second war against Iraq was gutting to me and the lies were blatant.

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... Жыл бұрын

    You guys give me hope. Thank you for honest and brave journalism.

  • @willscott1171
    @willscott1171 Жыл бұрын

    I lived in the same area as Rose Gentle whose son Gordon was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra. I saw what grief had done to that one woman and I swore I'd never vote labour again until Tony Blair is In Jail. I know that probably won't happen. I'm sure I'm not the only who turned away from labour following that monumentally bad decision. I also believe that MSM was aware of the veracity of the intelligence leading to the Iraq war, so I think they are complicit is feeding false information

  • @bibiayube677

    @bibiayube677

    Жыл бұрын

    We were lucky to have a prime Minister who didn't buy the lies that send too many young people to die for nothing, and yes you are right the ,msm must have know but still beat the war drums

  • @the_famous_reply_guy

    @the_famous_reply_guy

    Жыл бұрын

    Political parties are holding pens for live stock. We all end up in the slaughter house because both sides are butchers and the sheep dogs bark the herd around, barking dogs are the butchers friend.

  • @bigduke2140

    @bigduke2140

    Жыл бұрын

    You just want a reason to vote for the Conservative party, and are grasping at straws. Let's face it you just like to feel superior to the homeless man you step over whilst simping for your girlfriend and her orders the way your mum raised you.

  • @ivandafoe5451

    @ivandafoe5451

    Жыл бұрын

    Labour friendly parties always feel compelled to become liberals in order to get elected in the first place. How is the Labour Party going to improve, if people like yourself who want a better version remove themselves from the only process available?

  • @elaineedgar2913

    @elaineedgar2913

    Жыл бұрын

    Not only will Blair ever go to prison, he has become a millionaire since he left. It seems the devil looks after his own!

  • @notgodzod
    @notgodzod Жыл бұрын

    I was already sceptical of the media from my teens (I mean, isn't it obvious?), but it was properly confirmed to me in the late '90s when I attended a Reclaim the Streets demonstration where the police hemmed the crowd in and squeezed us so much that we had to push back (there were women there with young children) - and then got home to find it reported on the local news as protestors rioting and police having to intervene.

  • @hatfullofsky2470
    @hatfullofsky2470 Жыл бұрын

    We criticise north Korea propoganda environment and laud Western countries for having a very different media envirinment. However, it is just a difference in form or degree. There is just as much content manipulation and control. It is slightly more subtle but Julian Assange is a glaring example of what happens to those that dare to challenge the true hidden boundaries of what is acceptable to share with the working class.

  • @lorainejones41

    @lorainejones41

    Жыл бұрын

    North Korean media is better they don't use yellow peril lens filters like the BBC 😊

  • @MrSanguine
    @MrSanguine Жыл бұрын

    64 and rarely miss Novara's shows. Fills a big gap in the market, indeed. Well done, guys!

  • @joansudoku8283
    @joansudoku8283 Жыл бұрын

    Speaking truth to power is a brave act. You both lead the way.

  • @alastairjamesmainland2497
    @alastairjamesmainland2497 Жыл бұрын

    Your scrutiny is amazing, you're both coming from a fabulous angle on matters its so refreshing to listen to your coverage. Many Thanks and do continue.

  • @joeleadbetter3296
    @joeleadbetter3296 Жыл бұрын

    Great discussion Aaron and Ash. I am the son of very hardworking Irish immigrants to the UK who both met in London, plus I am also older than both of you. My father (who was a British Ulsterman by the way) had to endure in the late 50's No Irish, No Blacks, No dogs discrimination. Which was prominent in billboard and print advertising. Landlords would open the door when he wanted to find a place to live with words to the affect of " Oh I am sorry young man but I can't rent a room to you because if I did, all my other tenants would leave" As his father, my grandfather, fought in the Battle of Britain, this was quite upsetting and confusing for him at the time. But they endured and brought up six children who have done very well for themselves. Without a penny received from any benefit culture whatsoever. As children from immigrant families yourselves, I appreciate and cannot disagree with what you both say. This is very refreshing and please keep up the great work.

  • @TedThomasTT
    @TedThomasTT Жыл бұрын

    Ash is so good on the BBC, keeps her cool so well. And nice to see how many older viewers Novara has.

  • @myx0myc0t4
    @myx0myc0t4 Жыл бұрын

    I lost faith in journalism around 2015. I'm a Hungarian living in Kent and I used to follow both British and Hungarian media. When the Syrian refugee crisis hit Europe, it banged on Hungary's doors being a border country for Schengen. A video broke into the news in the UK with the dramatic headlines like "anti-migrant Hungary tears refugee families apart", and in the video you see a middle eastern woman and a baby being dragged away from a middle eastern man by force, while both of them fight hard to shake off the policemens' arms, all the while standing on the train tracks of a train station. Right before I made my mind up on how terrible my fellow Hungarians treat refugees, I stumbled upon the same video on a Hunagrian news site. It was about 1 minute longer. In it, the husband and the wife with the baby tied to her chest have a heated argument on the platform of the station, and as it elevates, the husban pushes the woman down onto the train tracks. Policemen around jump straight down to help her up, but the husband seeing this jumps down too, as he doesn't wish her wife being approached and touched by strange men. The struggle starts and the policemen consider it's best to remove the husband from the scene so they can help the woman off the tracks. At which point the cut video broadcasted by british media starts. It's absolutely bonkers. Hungary has a terrible reputation on the international stage, and I'm not saying it's all unjustified but there's a ton of subtle yet untrue information western people are told about my country and its people, and I honestly don't see who that benefits apart from the news agencies themselves hunting for clicks and views.

  • @RedSaint83

    @RedSaint83

    Жыл бұрын

    I can't say I have any strong opinions about Hungary, but I do agree with you that it's important to double check sources. Kind of like triangulation, you need at least 2 points of data to arrive at the full picture.

  • @helenswan705
    @helenswan705 Жыл бұрын

    These downstreams are wonderful. So much to think about - Ash is so sharp. thanks.

  • @harrylithgow68
    @harrylithgow68 Жыл бұрын

    I am 77 what brilliant news reporting, well done ❤❤

  • @jamesmckenna8092
    @jamesmckenna8092 Жыл бұрын

    White working class HS male in 50’s - I’m all in. You guys rock.

  • @pamelaadam9207
    @pamelaadam9207 Жыл бұрын

    59 year old North East Scot not a teen an occasional student on and off I am done with the EBC and so-called non biased or liberal media. I found you folks during lockdown, and yup, you hit the spot

  • @mchmch6185
    @mchmch6185 Жыл бұрын

    I'd like to add my voice in support. Novara's such a breath of fresh air in the UK media landscape. I've been watching you guys for a while and have gradually stopped watching any TV news programmes at all. I watch a lot of Novara on yt and haven't contributed for a while. Will send you some money soon. All the best.

  • @primate416
    @primate416 Жыл бұрын

    Enough with the ageism, NovaMedia. "Ooo I met an old dear, and she was left of centre. Bless." STOP IT. Being over 60 is not a pass to the local Conservative club nor and indication of mental (or moral) decline.

  • @jamesmckenna8092

    @jamesmckenna8092

    Жыл бұрын

    I get that - I’m in my 50’s and have become *more* liberal/ LW as I’ve grown older!

  • @simonbrook3076
    @simonbrook3076 Жыл бұрын

    I want to read that book Ash! Great chat, great knowledge and integrity. Thanks for all your hard work. 🙏

  • @ednaleys8555
    @ednaleys8555 Жыл бұрын

    Love Novara Media as along with other independent media you are telling the truth rather than the bull we get from the mainstream. Just a small but significant point retirement is now 66 not 65 and for 50s 60’s women it’s been a big struggle when our pension age changed from 60 to 65 and then 66 without notice

  • @pamelaadam9207

    @pamelaadam9207

    Жыл бұрын

    67 for those of us born in the early 60s

  • @mawkernewek

    @mawkernewek

    Жыл бұрын

    Not when Aaron is 66 it won't.

  • @SulaimanRafiq
    @SulaimanRafiq Жыл бұрын

    I don't 100% agree with all you say but it's incredibly interesting to listen too, particularly your critique of the UK media. Great discussion! This is new media

  • @henrypierce8900
    @henrypierce89009 ай бұрын

    Im a 63 yr old norn irish white prod... Novara is a beatifull orchard, a lush, green, shady grove, surrounded by a hostile barren desert. Thanks for the journalism!

  • @robf1531
    @robf1531 Жыл бұрын

    The strange death of David Kelly

  • @the_famous_reply_guy

    @the_famous_reply_guy

    Жыл бұрын

    They removed his body from his grave and hide it.

  • @dovic86
    @dovic86 Жыл бұрын

    don't hate the media, become the media - Jello Biafra

  • @DTL0VER
    @DTL0VER Жыл бұрын

    Keep going guys. Massive love for what you’re doing ❤

  • @susanmiller14
    @susanmiller14 Жыл бұрын

    I have been watching you guys grow since well before lockdown. I watch all you produce. I don’t agree with everything you say, but then I am not looking for a mirror. What I am looking for are ideas and intelligence, and you deliver it in buckets. As you build momentum will you consider championing causes that will make people’s lives better. You have the power. Btw I am a 72 yr old Corbynista.

  • @lobintool
    @lobintool Жыл бұрын

    Wow! what an interesting debate about what is really going on from our multi cutlural friends who share our British sense of honesty and decency! Well done! Please can we have more!

  • @imaginedhistory2993
    @imaginedhistory2993 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant conversation much needed.

  • @mediastudiesnetwork
    @mediastudiesnetwork4 ай бұрын

    Amazing convo, love the precision and depth of analysis here. My two favorite people ❤

  • @mosin949
    @mosin949 Жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate your factual and amazing show 😊 thank you Novara Media 👌👍

  • @HalimaBrewer
    @HalimaBrewer Жыл бұрын

    I am a 75 Yr old white ciswoman who is very, very worried about the direction this country is going in and I listen to Novara Media because of your intelligent, well informed and in depth reporting thank you.

  • @syriacchristianity9007

    @syriacchristianity9007

    Жыл бұрын

    You are a woman not “cis”!

  • @barrieroberts75
    @barrieroberts75 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant podcast ,at 71 I feel at home

  • @carrroad
    @carrroad Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Novara Media for confirming what I suspected had been going on for quite sometime in the mainstream media.

  • @michingmallecho5143
    @michingmallecho5143 Жыл бұрын

    You're a sweetheart Aaron Bastani. A good guy. My mother thought so and so do I.

  • @567secret
    @567secret Жыл бұрын

    The Guardian aims to keep the left-hand side of the overton window afixed, whilst the Daily Mail aims to move the right-hand side of it further rightward.

  • @jeanfrancoisnelson
    @jeanfrancoisnelson Жыл бұрын

    Love the conversations amongst members of the team on specific topics to really have space to flesh them out.

  • @iron_born
    @iron_born Жыл бұрын

    Cancelled my Labour Party membership and upped my donation to Novara. Big things to come from you guys 💪✊

  • @donaldstrong5154
    @donaldstrong5154 Жыл бұрын

    Whoa there @AaronBastani and @AyoCaesar , slow down there. I’m an American. The title of worst media belongs to us. You’re a close second but you’ve still got a ways to go catch up to us.

  • @stevenredpath9332

    @stevenredpath9332

    Жыл бұрын

    Worse in Europe. We’ve got that.

  • @francescahamilton6856
    @francescahamilton68564 ай бұрын

    Spot-on. Keep going. We need many more people, like you. Excellent debate as always.

  • @crissieroserose
    @crissieroserose Жыл бұрын

    thank you Novara , a sane voice in an insane country

  • @harveybrown37
    @harveybrown37 Жыл бұрын

    When in 2017 our State Broadcaster's Board became all but one Government appointed who could have guessed that within 5 years the Chairman would be the PM Sunak's old Boss at Goldman Sachs...

  • @johngreenshields1466
    @johngreenshields14666 ай бұрын

    Hi from Canada. Love the debate and NM content in general. This video brought me back to halcyon days of 1978, with a more subdued version of Valerie Perrine''s Superman wardrobe.

  • @nicholaskostopulos8631
    @nicholaskostopulos86315 ай бұрын

    Excellent (from the US). Congrats on the network; I’m hooked

  • @Tony-gv6ty
    @Tony-gv6ty Жыл бұрын

    Great show, thanks. This is why i follow Aljazeera or Even China Global network for global / business news.

  • @ethelmini

    @ethelmini

    Жыл бұрын

    With you on Al Jazeera. It ought to be obvious that the farther you can get from vested interests, about any particular topic, the more objective the reporting is likely to be .

  • @Srikstar
    @Srikstar Жыл бұрын

    I love what you guys do in the field of honest-hard working- gutsy journalism😊👍 Believe me in the years to come NM will be more powerful and relevant.

  • @helenswan705
    @helenswan705 Жыл бұрын

    With you on this. I scan the headlines but never buy a newspaper (I buy Private Eye). I scan the BBC headlines online but usually cannot bear to read the content. I rely on people like you, Owen, A Different Bias, DoubleDown, Brian Taylor cohen and similar to tell me the truest and MOST DEPRESSING news. Private eye = same. Truth but so depressing. that's a bit of an argument I have with myself, do I really want to know. So far, yes.

  • @outlawJosieFox

    @outlawJosieFox

    Жыл бұрын

    I am with you there mate. Sometimes it is so unrelentingly depressing but I still need to know . People around me have switched off years ago. There is no trust for those who lead us at all now

  • @johnnewton2949

    @johnnewton2949

    Жыл бұрын

    @Helen. Similar. Private Eye doesn't always get it right - but they admit to when they get it wrong. They're a small journal so they can't afford to get it wrong that often - the rich, the powerful and the corrupt have been trying to sue them out of existence since they first published. The fact they're still extant, in my opinion, is testimony to the reliability of their content.

  • @stegemme
    @stegemme Жыл бұрын

    "Harold Shipman opining on a good beside manner" classic

  • @mawkernewek

    @mawkernewek

    Жыл бұрын

    journalist --> spin doctor is the analogous process of doctor --> Harold Shipman

  • @Armyjay
    @Armyjay Жыл бұрын

    I’ll see your British media and raise you one US Corporate Media.

  • @damianmoran1512

    @damianmoran1512

    Жыл бұрын

    Same person Murdoch

  • @TheDandonian

    @TheDandonian

    Жыл бұрын

    It's one and the same. Same owners. Trump support for Boris was not just because they have the same hair.

  • @sprobablycancr4457

    @sprobablycancr4457

    Жыл бұрын

    I was just about to fold, but thinking about it, it seems the differences are mainly cosmetic.

  • @Armyjay

    @Armyjay

    Жыл бұрын

    @@damianmoran1512 Yeah, some of it not all of it.

  • @Armyjay

    @Armyjay

    Жыл бұрын

    All i’ll say is watch a day’s worth of MSNBC, FOX, CNN, OANN, et al. It’s ridiculously partisan and pro-corporate, *never* critical of their corporate sponsors *or* the particular side of the corporate political establishment they are supporting. It’s hard to watch.

  • @ishents1
    @ishents1 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Owen. Everything you said, brother. You are my daily dose of sanity. So I know the whole world hasn't got the memory span of goldfish. Keep talking I'll keep listening because it the truth and it makes sense. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

  • @short-circuit-matrix
    @short-circuit-matrix Жыл бұрын

    Just discovered novaro Media, and I'm totally hooked .43 year old..and this channel represents the people

  • @santander6317
    @santander6317 Жыл бұрын

    It’s about who owns the media

  • @mjc01
    @mjc01 Жыл бұрын

    63 last december. Thank you Novara for this, and many other, searching and intelligent conversations.

  • @gibbions
    @gibbions Жыл бұрын

    When the Iraq war happened I was STILL elated from the ‘97 victory. That completely clouded my judgement. The Thatcher years left so many scars - not least that when Labour finally came to power, some people like me having grown up feeling the brunt of her devastating policies, misguidedly felt that Blair could do no wrong…

  • @tonedowne

    @tonedowne

    Жыл бұрын

    Sadly the cycle seems to be set to repeat. Labour are only looking at an election victory because they have a Tory light leadership that is acceptable to the media and the conservatives have runout of steam after trashing the economy again.

  • @opinion3742
    @opinion3742 Жыл бұрын

    To be honest a machete wielding Ash is a hard image not to like!

  • @Ireneannpayne
    @Ireneannpayne Жыл бұрын

    Pleased to hear an acknowledgement that not all post 60s are the same! I’m 73 and subscribed to Novara in your early years. Rather than forays to M&S I am a pensioner activist for improvements locally, supporting recent strikes and climate action. Keep doing what you are doing! I’m having trouble remaining in the Labour Party so need your alternative views. Irene

  • @erictottman-trayner6976
    @erictottman-trayner6976 Жыл бұрын

    The power of discrimination. Essential skill. Keep going!

  • @AK-wl4vq
    @AK-wl4vq Жыл бұрын

    Always enjoy Ash on politics live always comes across as the only sane decent human being on the panel, dignity and decorum, sadly lacking in the political/media culture on terrestrial/satelite tv

  • @psychedelicpegasus7587
    @psychedelicpegasus758711 ай бұрын

    I live in Scotland and I sent my Mum in Ireland a NM clip. A few days later she shared a NM video with me. SUCCESS! Her KZread recommendations were getting very "American far right pipeline"-y there for a minute. 😅 Novara Media, to the rescue!

  • @Themediaitch
    @Themediaitch Жыл бұрын

    Proud northern boy (Cumbrian specifically) I love Novara, I listen every night at work and I am encouraging all of my family members to do the same

  • @maryleahy3843
    @maryleahy3843 Жыл бұрын

    I have been listening to you from Ireland. Great work

  • @allancurrie9472
    @allancurrie9472 Жыл бұрын

    Great comments guys, made me cry tbh, when truth, is told

  • @michingmallecho5143
    @michingmallecho5143 Жыл бұрын

    I think the fact that Ash thinks of Phil Collins as a drummer for Genesis rather than a vocalist implies a familiarity with their excellent early work rather than their later dreadful illegal alien decadence - and now I know she's a prog fan who almost certainly has a copy of Foxtrot I am keen to get her perspective on Van Der Graaf Generator. PFM. Magma.

  • @billelder125

    @billelder125

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget Nursery Crimes? 😉

  • @AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc
    @AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc Жыл бұрын

    Had Irak actually possessed WMD's, no one would've attacked them that way. Plain and simple.

  • @lowfatmofat2152
    @lowfatmofat2152 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant content great show 👍🏻

  • @sammysmith6248
    @sammysmith6248 Жыл бұрын

    You guys are great. Love what your doing.

  • @barrieroberts75
    @barrieroberts75 Жыл бұрын

    Last time I loved an interview on the BBC was when a innocent female interviewer was given the job of interviewing Jeffrey Sacks at the beginning of the Russian SMO my god did he freak out the poor girl

  • @arturahmeti486
    @arturahmeti486 Жыл бұрын

    Never read a line from printed English media. Now i will stop with tv broadcast as well.

  • @charisma-hornum-fries
    @charisma-hornum-fries8 ай бұрын

    It's so uplifting to read the age of everyone and the reasons for watching. Everyone are norm-stormers and amazing for it.

  • @Lynn.hot.legs.peters
    @Lynn.hot.legs.peters Жыл бұрын

    64 Here and could see the Media going down this slippery slope 20 years ago...Glad I found Navara Media and a few others otherwise we would be in Trouble !

  • @David-st1yt

    @David-st1yt

    Жыл бұрын

    Who else is on your playlist Peter?

  • @aishay7407
    @aishay7407 Жыл бұрын

    Aged 58 and love Novara Media!

  • @lucychilds637
    @lucychilds637 Жыл бұрын

    Superb analysis!

  • @taranehahmadi-parker1412
    @taranehahmadi-parker1412 Жыл бұрын

    Totally agree with Arron .. I find that out when I was a member of Labour Party.

  • @jsrodman
    @jsrodman11 ай бұрын

    Regarding the push for Iraq, what was weird to me is that my internet friends in France, in the Netherlands, in Sweden, in South Africa all bought the Rumsfeld lies about Iraq having these weapons of mass destruction etc. It was so strange to me because I live in the US. The propoganda was largely meant for me, not them. It was such a strange feeling for them to buy the nonsense while I could point out the flaws and they instead went with the claims from US department of defense personnel.

  • @laogong52
    @laogong52 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting watershed moments of thought awakening. Mine were the photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, when aged 11. And news film of bombs raining down on North Vietnam. Both raising early thoughts which later developed into a healthy questioning of narrative and morality. Eventually left the UK, lived and worked in a few other countries, including China, leading to a healthy distance to the assumptions imposed by my original culture. Keep up your good work.

  • @mauriziomonti8384
    @mauriziomonti8384 Жыл бұрын

    *reads the title* Me, an italian looking at italian newspapers: i ain't sure about that mate

  • @stfnba

    @stfnba

    Жыл бұрын

    Sei qua in Gran Bretagna da un po'? Io ho perso un po' il filo con i mass media italiani.

  • @mauriziomonti8384

    @mauriziomonti8384

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stfnba no due anni fa sono scappato in Scandinavia, ma ogni tanto guardo qualcuna delle loro interviste o i notiziari. In Italia non so manco che succeda a volte, mia madre mi racconta una volta a settimana, tipo newsletter lol

  • @mauriziomonti8384

    @mauriziomonti8384

    Жыл бұрын

    @@keithparker1346 Well you haven't seen Berlusconi's TV in all its glory :) but let me make a cheap joke, it's good sometimes

  • @vibez_kru01
    @vibez_kru01 Жыл бұрын

    35:17 got to love Ash when the expletives start flying 😂❤👌🏾

  • @AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc
    @AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc Жыл бұрын

    I live in Spain and I frankly disagree. In fact I suspect the same happens on almost every western liberal capitalist regime

  • @syttt7925
    @syttt7925 Жыл бұрын

    Me and my partner are in our 60's there are a lot of people my age watching you

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