Julie Birchill on why the press has been fairly quiet on Eric Joyce

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TheYellowOfTheEgg · 12/08/2020 14:01

She pulls no punches in this article on the Eric Joyce and why the media hasn't gone for him. She's right that we hadn't heard much about how bad the stuff he was looking at was.

www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/12/the-silence-of-the-hacks/

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DianasLasso · 12/08/2020 14:15

Well done Julie.

And "behind the wokescreen" is a fabulous turn of phrase which to neatly encapsulates the worst side of this current shitshow.

I'm a bit worried by the aside that the Times is making an editorial policy change to align itself on the side of wokedom to get a younger readership. I hope this is not so, but Burchill being a press insider probably does know the inside gossip.

isathal · 12/08/2020 14:15

Thank you for bringing this to my attention as I was not aware of any of this.

Wearywithteens · 12/08/2020 14:14

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Lunaballoon · 12/08/2020 14:12

Excellent appraisal by JB and shocking in equal measure.

Saucery · 12/08/2020 14:05

That’s characteristically blistering of her.

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