The Media's Ugly Truth Exposed
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Oh dear: this writer has really set them off! Mic Wright wrote a detailed exposé of the British media's 'nepo babies' - that is, how so many journalists are related to other famous media types. The result was a fair bit of anger. But the British media on a national level is one of the most privileged industries in the country. It distorts and damages our democracy - and this is why it matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, please like and subscribe. Now, the British media is the second most privileged at the |
| 0:05.4 | national level industry in the country after medicine. It's supposed to be a pillar of democracy, |
| 0:10.8 | but I think many would argue it's a pillar of the establishment. The one thing they don't like, |
| 0:16.1 | and I speak as soon as he's been a bit of a year for a very long time now, don't like privilege |
| 0:21.2 | being mentioned when it comes to them. Now, I'm joined by who I can understand is the |
| 0:26.4 | piss boiler in chief, Mick Gryte, who does a very brilliant blog, which I will, here we go, |
| 0:34.8 | brokenbottleboy.substact.com, which keeps a watch for light on the British media in ways that |
| 0:40.6 | many people in the British media do not like. And the reason he's particularly the piss boiler |
| 0:45.7 | in chief at the current moment is he's done this map, which he will not be able to watch properly. |
| 0:53.4 | I will put this in the description of the video and the podcast, because it's just so big. |
| 0:58.2 | And it is basically, it's the Nepo baby map of the British media. It shows like a load of journalists |
| 1:05.0 | and who their famous parents slash often grandparents, brothers, siblings, sisters, |
| 1:12.5 | you name it. And it's a network, basically, of just how insetuous the British media is. |
| 1:16.8 | Hello, Mick. Hello, how's it going? Why did you do it? |
| 1:20.6 | Well, I did it because New York magazine in December last year did a thing about Hollywood |
| 1:28.4 | Nepo babies, which then use quite often with the British media what you have is follow-on pieces |
| 1:33.7 | from stuff. So there were loads of pieces in the British media about the New York magazine |
| 1:37.7 | Nepo babies piece. And they're all those pieces focused on either the entertainment industry or |
| 1:43.3 | lawyers or politics or some bits of corporate life, but never mentioned journalism. So the times |
| 1:51.3 | did a big article about it, not a mention of journalists. You go into the comments under there |
| 1:55.3 | and the readers are going, well, hang on, what about Charles Kaurin and what about your Victoria |
| 2:00.0 | Kaurin Mitchell who got her start writing a column in the Times when she was like 15. What about |
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