Our media doesn& #39;t show us the reality of life in this country. 8 years ago the BBC showed & #39;Poor Kids& #39;, a documentary about life for the 3.5m (now 4m+) children in poverty. I remember it well, because it was shocking, moving and unlike anything shown since: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011vnls">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... https://twitter.com/huwlemmey/status/1198227472652947459">https://twitter.com/huwlemmey...

Today, the focus and funding our major broadcasters put into documentaries of social inquiry and reportage is paltry. And the idea they might even make programmes about other possible forms of social organisation is pretty fanciful.

Yet 2 out of the 3 channels in Britain used to show investigative programmes (BBC Panorama + ITV World in Action) at the same time every Monday evening, and put serious resources into them. In 1980 Horizon made a documentary on the Modragon co-operatives. What odds of that today?

The social devastation of austerity has been enabled by the willingness of our broadcasters, as well as the vast majority of our journalist class, to look the other way and fail in their basic job of showing what life is like for most people in this country.

The media manufactures consent to government policies of utter barbarity by simply not reporting/discussing/depicting them in all their reality and their appalling human consequences.

The inevitable result is the kind of galloping ignorance on display in thinking your £80k a year doesn& #39;t make you very well-off indeed. Our culture lets the affluent and the ultra-wealthy go about their lives entirely guilt-free.