The UK’s #mediajackals apparently liked the Brexit vote approximately as much as US #mediajackals liked Trump’s election win:
“The morning of the EU Referendum was different. Leave had won — and this was not what the BBC had expected. Nor what it wanted.
No nods and smiles when the big bosses appeared. No attempt to pretend that this was anything other than a disaster.
Their expressions were as grim as the look on the face of a football supporter when his team’s star player misses the penalty that would have won them the cup.”
The UK’s cultural decline is further advanced than ours, so if we’re paying attention it should be a clear lesson in what not to do.
Side note: The BBC has a budget of about $6 billion, nearly $5 billion of which comes from mandatory license fees. Here the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets about half a billion tax dollars, and President Trump to his credit is trying to get rid of almost all of it. Unfortunately he proposed this last year and the Republicans dutifully wrote checks to fund their political enemies at NPR anyway. But at least the federal dole is an order of magnitude less than what the UK hands out.
The UK’s #mediajackals apparently liked the Brexit vote approximately as much as US #mediajackals liked Trump’s election win:
The UK’s cultural decline is further advanced than ours, so if we’re paying attention it should be a clear lesson in what not to do.
Side note: The BBC has a budget of about $6 billion, nearly $5 billion of which comes from mandatory license fees. Here the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets about half a billion tax dollars, and President Trump to his credit is trying to get rid of almost all of it. Unfortunately he proposed this last year and the Republicans dutifully wrote checks to fund their political enemies at NPR anyway. But at least the federal dole is an order of magnitude less than what the UK hands out.