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[FONT="]T[/FONT][FONT="]he British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to “systematically undermine” his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.[/FONT]
[FONT="]This sustained attack had itself followed a month of wildly misleadingheadlines about Corbyn and his policies in these same outlets. Concerns about sexual assaults on public transport were construed as campaigning for women-only trains. Advocacy for Keynesian fiscal and monetary policies was presented as a plan to “turn Britain into Zimbabwe.” An appeal to reconsider the foreign policy approach of the last decade was presented as an association with Putin’s Russia.[/FONT]
[FONT="]In the months which followed the attacks continued. Particularly egregious examples, such as the criticism of Corbyn for refusing to“bow deeply enough” while paying his respects on Remembrance Day, stick in the memory. But it is the insidious rather than the ridiculous which best characterizes the British media’s approach to Corbyn.
Read more @: The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
The British media unity is stunning: almost all columnists/commentators at major outlets are also anti-Corbyn. [/FONT]