"I think you also have to question whether every voice deserves equal weight"
That's the problem right there. As soon as a group sets itself up as judge and jury over whose voices should be heard, things start to go very wrong. You decide whether someone's voice is worth listening to by choosing whether to listen to it, not by preventing others from making the same decision.
As for GB News, if it is doing anything illegal or prejudiced it will get shut down for it. If it isn't and you don't like what they say, switch it off. Easy.
(, Fri 6 Aug 2021, 13:48, Reply)
"As soon as a group sets itself up as judge and jury over whose voices should be heard, things start to go very wrong. You decide whether someone's voice is worth listening to by choosing whether to listen to it, not by preventing others from making the same decision."
A "group" setting itself up as "judge and jury"? That's very dramatic. I'm talking about basic editorial judgements about who gets airtime, which is unavoidable unless you are suggesting that we should hear from everyone in the world about every subject?
The BBC famously gave Nigel Lawson a national platform to comment on climate change, despite the fact he's just a shill for the climate sceptic lobby who has repeatedly been caught peddling false information. If you're going to present an alternative climate sceptic viewpoint, he wasn't the person to do it, and didn't deserve the platform he was given.
Farage is just pandering to the prejudiced to earn himself some cash. He's not contributing anything to the debate on immigration, so we lose nothing if he's not on national TV.
(, Fri 6 Aug 2021, 16:45, Reply)