The man who's terrified of everything
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 151 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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| 0:29.7 | Good morning. It's three minutes after ten and you're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:34.4 | Right, belt yourself in because I'm not quite sure where we're going at the moment. It's a very, |
| 0:39.1 | very odd one. You'll be aware if you are kind, stroke, mad, stroke, bored enough to listen to |
| 0:44.7 | this programme on a regular basis. You'll be aware that I don't have enormous faith in my news |
| 0:50.0 | values. It gets better with every passing year, But British newspapers over the last 20 or 30 years |
| 0:56.3 | haven't really been in the business of keeping their readers informed. They've been in the business |
| 1:00.9 | of titillating, haven't they? And sort of discombobulating and commoditizing anger and fear |
| 1:07.9 | or pushing people towards points of no return and you know the the the business |
| 1:15.0 | model is pretty clear to see and the tragedy of the last 10 years is that what used to be |
| 1:19.5 | confined to the cheaper prints to the to the sun or the mail and the late late edition |
| 1:24.9 | express late era later era express has now seeped into the telegraph and increasingly |
| 1:30.2 | it's very sad to say into the time since their newest editor was appointed. So you don't have to |
| 1:37.5 | feel bad about not being able to fully define what is an important or big story and what is not. |
| 1:46.1 | For example, the story this morning, the horrible story about the submarine that is lost on a visit to the Titanic. |
| 1:52.4 | And I'm afraid I can resist it, but I understand completely why it's journalistically irresistible to focus in on things like the depleting air supplies and the horror of that situation. |
| 2:05.5 | I mean, in the great scheme of what is important in the world today, that would barely register unless you were on the flipping thing or loved someone aboard. |
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