With Seumas Milne rumoured to be on the way out, Jeremy Corbyn could soon be on the prowl for a new Director of Communications. Although Paul Mason has denied that he is interested in the job, he is still a favourite to join the Leader’s Office. So, with that in mind, Mr S was curious to hear his views on Fleet Street and the Mainstream Media (better known as MSM among Corbynites) at a Momentum talk on ‘radical media’. It turns out that the former Newsnight economics editor isn’t such a fan.
While he promised to ‘try and be strained in my vitriol and personal views’ in the discussion, Mason went on to say that Fleet Street hacks think they are ‘trying to write their first draft of history using a professional code and ethos of bourgeois democracy and that everything they do is in the public interest’. However, in reality they are actually ‘utterly subservient to a bunch of right wing reactionary misogynistic racist bottoms’.
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