The media have failed - and the public know it

There are three malign motives driving many of the mainstream media in the UK. First is Brexit – which many London journalists have great difficulty in understanding has happened. “Do you think this is a good time to be leaving the European Union?” asked one gigantic numpty of Rishi Sunak at the daily Number 10 press conference; “We have left” replied Mr Sunak. Bitterness over having failed to reverse democracy pervades the newsrooms of the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky and has coloured their coverage of the Wuhan virus.

Second is their left-wing bias. Hence the suggestion that no one has ever made outside the febrile minds of journalists that Mr Johnson should share power with assorted failures and has-beens, mostly of the left but including a Remainer or two to frustrate our EU trade negotiations. Yeah sure. We have a majority of 81. Good reason to let Tony Blair and John Major join the cabinet.

Thirdly is their hatred and envy of Boris himself. Emily Maitlis made her own dislike of the PM very clear in June of last year, when she chaired (appallingly) that ridiculous TV debate with Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and a jejune attention-seeking Rory Stewart, all perched on uncomfortable bar stools while Emily launched dig after dig at Boris.

Fortunately, they’re stupid enough to imagine that using their privileged airtime to slag-off the PM, our government and the nation’s response will rouse public anger against the government. Well, cretins, it’s had exactly the opposite effect. Our little media heroes have been stunned at the ferocious reaction against them on social media. Peston, Kuenssberg, Maitlis, Boulton, Newman, Burley, Morgan and the Snows hardly dare venture onto Twitter these days – they’re immediately destroyed by an enraged public. And this at a time when newspapers are facing severe challenges from loss of advertising, as is Channel 4, and the BBC is facing an imminent decriminalisation of the TV tax. Yep morons. You’re facing nemesis.

The final straw is their failure to ask serious questions of China of the sort that Niall Ferguson asks in the Boston Globe – serious and searching questions on the origin of the Wuhan virus, the cover ups, the conspiracy and the disguising of the truth. Peston’s stupidity, Kuenssberg’s malice, Matlis’s meretriciousness and all the rest trying to find gaps through which to shove needles at Boris whilst giving the PRC a free pass have not been missed by the public.

All of which is reflected in the latest popularity poll from JL polling for Times Red Box (9/4) – China may be down -45%, but the media is close behind at -29%.