A brief investigation into Sky News would reveal critical errors in reasoning.
The fact is people don’t always get it right.
It’s even clearer if those people are behind or on a screen and they groupthink it out. It’s happened at the office of Sky News and it isn’t pretty.
The political lore of the UK is that thugs feed off propaganda and yet it’s the ordinary events of our daily lives that make for their fodder.
It’s the so-called propaganda of a stabbing maybe that makes it happen but this is factually not true.
It’s not us that makes it go but its own engine of hatred.
At least, that is how more sage figures think about it. They don’t express such views so clearly because to do so is to be under immediate fire from Sky News, as they used to say.
Although not so much these days it used to be an inside joke at one point.
The projection of the UK by Sky News is under scrutiny sometimes because its output is suspiciously incorrect according to many eminent scholars in this field.
They’ve revealed their misgivings in private conversations and their assessments are scathing, and don’t publicise it either because there’s no given reason to doing so.
It just doesn’t figure as highly as others.
The point is though at times it resembles a sort of modern form of Russian propaganda. It doesn’t help most times if an event is commented on at length to hear it from Sky News because it’s wrong.
This is because its presentation usually comes with a dollop of visuals and insight which incites a sort of critical thought that isn’t normal here.
It isn’t physical violence that results but political apathy.
It’s important to separate figures from people and not confuse the two, but as an ongoing comment it also matters to separate fact from fiction.
It appears Sky News and their news team haven’t realised it yet.