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Related: About this forumUK activist Owen Jones walks off of tv show when hosts refuse to call Orlando massacre homophobic
This was on Sky News...the main Murdoch channel on British tv.
Owen Jones is a major LGBTQ and leftist commentator and author in the UK.
(the walk out occurs at 6:42 in the clip. Can anyone blame him?)
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UK activist Owen Jones walks off of tv show when hosts refuse to call Orlando massacre homophobic (Original Post)
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
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At 5:43 in the video the woman says that "Canada actually has more guns per person than.....
4bucksagallon
Jun 2016
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bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)1. What a teeth-pulling conversation
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4bucksagallon
(975 posts)2. At 5:43 in the video the woman says that "Canada actually has more guns per person than.....
America but they have control over who can have them".... WTF.... LOL...... I want what some of whatever she has been smoking.
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)3. Owen Jones has written about this in The Guardian.
Orlando was both a terrorist attack and a homophobic attack on LGBT people. It was both the worst mass shooting in US history, and the worst targeted mass killing of LGBT people in the western world since the Holocaust. It is possible for an atrocity to be more than one thing at the same time. You are not compelled to select one option or the other. Life with both its horrors and its joys is incredibly complicated, and we have a rich language able to capture its complexities.
I am reluctant to dwell too much on my appearance on Sky News last night, because this isnt about me, so lets just use it as a case study. In sum, I walked off in disgust during a discussion about the massacre: it was an instinctive reaction to an unpleasant and untenable situation. The presenter continually and repeatedly refused to accept that this was an attack on LGBT people.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/13/sky-news-homophobia-orlando-sexuality
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)4. This is the kind of journalism we should all drop...
... Sky Fucking News bobble heads apparently can't go off script either.... What a coincidence...
I think he was far too patient before walking off. What a bunch of puppetry... Brought to you and practically everyone else by Uncle Murdock.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)5. I'm confident that within hours
after the massacre, the FOX family and the rest of corporate mass media had determined what the narrative would be. If the pundits are all presenting it in the same light, you may assume that is no coincidence.