The UK press and the Tories in particular are world experts in this tactic.
Boris just yesterday had the Sue Gray report detailing all the lockdown rulebreaking they did while other people couldn't attend funerals for their loved ones. Should have been a huge thing and could have been milked for weeks. They sat on outflanking labour from the left with the windfall tax and direct payments to disabled + elderly until the day afterwards so they could shove it out of the news cycle with their shocking and rather good response that is more left than Starmer.
This mindset of news cycle manipulation is part of the right wing's tactics in the UK and at the heart of a lot of their strategy. The people at the BBC, who are directly at the table with the same strategists for the government, are absolutely reading from the same playbook.
The UK press and the Tories in particular are world experts in this tactic.
Boris just yesterday had the Sue Gray report detailing all the lockdown rulebreaking they did while other people couldn't attend funerals for their loved ones. Should have been a huge thing and could have been milked for weeks. They sat on outflanking labour from the left with the windfall tax and direct payments to disabled + elderly until the day afterwards so they could shove it out of the news cycle with their shocking and rather good response that is more left than Starmer.
This mindset of news cycle manipulation is part of the right wing's tactics in the UK and at the heart of a lot of their strategy. The people at the BBC, who are directly at the table with the same strategists for the government, are absolutely reading from the same playbook.
This is valuable info. Thank you. :stalin-approval: